Friday, September 23, 2011

Reading 5 Million Books

Have you played with Google Labs' NGram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel in this TED briefing show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words. 
 
 

You can use the calculator at this link.

No comments:

Post a Comment