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TEDx Talk: What we learned from 5 million books

I discovered the Google Ngram Viewer from this TED Talk by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel who are both fellows at Harvard University and Visiting Faculty at Google. They created the tool to analyse the millions of books being digitised by Google to allow them to search for cultural trends. Using the Ngram Viewer would certainly ...

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A History of Teaching and Learning from 500 Billion Words

10.08.2011 · Posted in Google, History, books, culture, data, language, vocabulary, words

    By analysing over 500 billion words the Google Books Ngram Viewer allows you to compare the history of terminology and language from approximately 5 million digitised books. The graph above shows my search for the terms “teaching” and “learning” in publications between the years 1500 and 2010. What fascinates me is how the ...

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