Seeing the big picture Recent Harvard Society of Fellows member Erez Aiden explains his new book and work on the Google Ngram Viewer, which lets users pull insight from millions of digitized books
[...]there were no tools that allowed you to ask the basic questions like "How often did people talk about democracy?" and "When did people get interested in feminism?" At a certain moment, when the Google Books data became sufficiently large, when we had so many books in suffici...
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| Published in | The Boston globe |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Boston, Mass
Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC
22.12.2013
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| Summary: | [...]there were no tools that allowed you to ask the basic questions like "How often did people talk about democracy?" and "When did people get interested in feminism?" At a certain moment, when the Google Books data became sufficiently large, when we had so many books in sufficient quantities, we started to see statistically significant counts for different concepts, like separation of church and state. |
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| ISSN: | 0743-1791 |