Ngram Viewer

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Google Books Ngrams Viewer is a tool for analyzing the whole google books corpus.

According to Culturonomic, , retrieved 12:56, 18 December 2010 (CET), “The Google Labs N-gram Viewer is the first tool of its kind, capable of precisely and rapidly quantifying cultural trends based on massive quantities of data. It is a gateway to culturomics! The browser is designed to enable you to examine the frequency of words (banana) or phrases ('United States of America') in books over time. You'll be searching through over 5.2 million books: ~4% of all books ever published!”

See also: Visualization

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References

  • Michel, Jean-Baptiste:; Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden, Adrian Veres, Matthew K. Gray, The Google Books Team, Joseph P. Pickett, Dale Hoiberg, Dan Clancy, Peter Norvig, Jon Orwant, Steven Pinker, Martin A. Nowak, and Erez Lieberman Aiden. (2010). [Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science. ScienceMag online Version (12/16/210) Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books