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beamjockey) wrote2011-02-25 01:00 pm
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Fun with Google NGram Viewer, Which Views N-Grams
I am fascinated by Google NGram Viewer, by the Science paper that accompanied its announcement, and by the 88-page supplemental material that accompanied the paper.
best practice, best practices
big picture
bionic, cyborg
bottom line
brainstorm, brainstorming
critical thinking
cybernetics, cybernetic, cyberspace
deliverables, deliverable
mission statement
network, networking
rocket science, not rocket science, not exactly rocket science
run it up the flagpole
synergy, synergistic, synergism
23 skidoo
year 2000
best practice, best practices
big picture
bionic, cyborg
bottom line
brainstorm, brainstorming
critical thinking
cybernetics, cybernetic, cyberspace
deliverables, deliverable
mission statement
network, networking
rocket science, not rocket science, not exactly rocket science
run it up the flagpole
synergy, synergistic, synergism
23 skidoo
year 2000
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werewolf, vampire, zombie, mummy
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zero gee, zero g, null gravity, weightless, weightlessness, free fall
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antigravity, Dean drive, spindizzy, Bussard ramjet
Not at all the graph I expected to see!
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In some library catalogues, dates have been set to 1900 by default for some books. Google Books, which gets its metadata from the libraries (as well as other sources) has inherited this glitch.
Another thing: for a bound journal, sometimes the founding date of the journal is used, and it may not correspond to the date of the passage your search finds.
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Then I said to myself, "Thought so."
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Note that the graph starts to hover above 0.00000200% after 1920, and stays in that range for the next 75 years, after which it starts to zoom upwards.
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analog,analogue, digital
punchcard,punched card,punch card,Hollerith
Charles Babbage,Ada Lovelace,Ada Augusta from 1808 to 2008
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