Sunday, January 22, 2012

Book Data

Sunday afternoons in January when the garden can look after itself and you don't have a dog to take for a walk you are looking for an intellectual challenge. You can always plot the fall of capitalism or chart the rise of peace and justice.




Click on the graphs and all will be revealed!


Nice little gizmo from Google Books - The Ngram Viewer

Thanks to:-
Jean-Baptiste Michel*, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden, Adrian Veres, Matthew K. Gray, The Google Books Team, Joseph P. Pickett, Dale Hoiberg, Dan Clancy, Peter Norvig, Jon Orwant, Steven Pinker, Martin A. Nowak, and Erez Lieberman Aiden*. Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books. Science. Published Online Ahead of Print: 12/16/2010.