Fun with Google NGram Viewer, Which Views N-Grams

[beamjockey]

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

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

zero gee, null gravity
werewolf, vampire, zombie, mummy

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't this be more informative?
zero gee, zero g, null gravity, weightless, weightlessness, free fall

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I started with one somewhat like that, but in my version several of the terms set the scale high enough ("weightless", I think) that you couldn't distinguish the others down on the bottom, so I dropped them. I think you have the same terms there, so I'm not sure why you're getting different results. Well, the green one is mostly lost, and it actually makes a clear departure from the baseline at a larger scale.