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Lisa Stewart

Google Ngram Viewer - 4 views

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    Graphically compare the popularity of phrases over time.
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    This would be great for someone's field research--thanks, Ryan!
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    Google's own book corpus tool
Lisa Stewart

Google Ngram Viewer - 2 views

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    explains how to interpret the results
Ryan Catalani

Prom or "the Prom"? « Literal-Minded - 0 views

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    "[W]hen you can't tell if word X is a noun or a verb, that means X is a state of mind... Going by this graph from the Google Ngram viewer, it looks like the prom is still well in the lead, but EW is right that people have begun to use plain old prom a lot more in the last decade."
Lisa Stewart

Exposing Literary Style, One Word at a Time - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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    includes links to other literary corpora
Lisa Stewart

Google N-gram Viewer - Culturomics - 0 views

  • The Google Labs N-gram Viewer is the first tool of its kind, capable of precisely and rapidly quantifying cultural trends based on massive quantities of data. It is a gateway to culturomics! The browser is designed to enable you to examine the frequency of words (banana) or phrases ('United States of America') in books over time. You'll be searching through over 5.2 million books: ~4% of all books ever published! 
  • Basically, if you’re going to use this corpus for scientific purposes, you’ll need to do careful controls to make sure it can support your application. Like with any other piece of evidence about the human past, the challenge with culturomic trajectories lie in their interpretation. In this paper, and in its supplementary online materials, we give many examples of controls, and of methods for interpreting trajectories. 
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    more detail from Harvard about how to use N-gram
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