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Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by ivancho » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 10:07 PM UTC

msbmsb wrote: post #14

one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine,ten http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree... In order, except "ten" shows up between "six" and "seven".

perfect example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by igravious » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 10:11 PM UTC

Hey Google!

Combine this with Google Sets ( from Labs as well http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=immigration&q2=... ) so that I can feed a list generated by Sets into Ngrams.

Thanks! (And a pony too.)

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by akozak » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 10:13 PM UTC

shib71 wrote: post #8

akozak wrote: post #7

This is really fun to play with: http://goo.gl/mNSDD

Why would you use a shortener when there is no need? Especially when the URL is useful as it is here.

It's fun to track how many clicks it gets, and I'd already had it on my clipboard for twitter :)

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by akozak » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 10:15 PM UTC

makmanalp wrote: post #16

akozak wrote: post #7

This is really fun to play with: http://goo.gl/mNSDD

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=christianity%2C+i...

It's actually case-sensitive, so here's a more accurate comparison: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Christianity,Isla...

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by msbmsb » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 10:16 PM UTC

msbmsb wrote: post #14

one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine,ten http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree... In order, except "ten" shows up between "six" and "seven".

Also interesting, the 1700s were not kind to the numbers "six" or "seven":

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree...

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by ntoshev » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 10:32 PM UTC

Google trends for books?

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by jluxenberg » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 10:34 PM UTC

wgrover wrote: post #6

Try "war": ( http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=war&year_star... ). Nice peaks on WWI, WWII, and Vietnam; maybe a tiny peak on the Gulf War. Any other search terms where you can see meaningful fluctuations?

Also, "atomic": http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=atomic&year_s...

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by srean » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 10:42 PM UTC

The first thing I tried out was different 3-grams of "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". Here are the results

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Colorless+green+i...

The correlation patterns and the year where the curve picks up are interesting. It would be illuminating to map the peaks.

Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 10:45 PM UTC

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Re: Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

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Post by nl » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 10:47 PM UTC

I love the "whale fail" image you get if you have an error: http://imgur.com/qCDCj