Friday 17 January 2014

What we learned from 5 million books

Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words. (Filmed at TEDxBoston.)

Jean-Baptiste Michel looks at how we can use large volumes of data to better understand our world. Full bio »
 
Erez Lieberman Aiden pursues a broad range of research interests, spanning genomics, linguistics, mathematics ... Full bio »



Source: http://www.ted.com/talksl/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html 

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