TED Talk : What we learned from 5 million books

Posted on September 22, 2011. Filed under: blah di bloody blah |

An extremely entertaining talk by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel who show us how playing with Google Labs’ NGram Viewer is an addictive tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.

http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf

[Reposted from xntrek]

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