Has anyone seen Google's powerful new toy - the Google Ngram Viewer?

Google put the texts of 5.3 million books published from 1800 to 2008 on-line. Enter one or several terms, and get a chart showing the frequency with which the term was used in print from 1800 to 2008. This shows both the absolute and comparative frequencies of term usage, and how they've changed over time. It's easy to read too much into the results, but this is a fascinating and possibly enlightening tool to see, objectively, how ideas have waxed and waned in importance. Enjoy!

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

bobover3 (imported) wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2010 2:38 am Has anyone seen Google's powerful new toy - the Google Ngram Viewer?

Google put the texts of 5.3 million books published from 1800 to 2008 on-line. Enter one or several terms, and get a chart showing the frequency with which the term was used in print from 1800 to 2008. This shows both the absolute and comparative frequencies of term usage, and how they've changed over time. It's easy to read too much into the results, but this is a fascinating and possibly enlightening tool to see, objectively, how ideas have waxed and waned in importance. Enjoy!

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

I've seen it, fun thing

Seen it after a suggestion to search for words "church" and "science" in russian texts.

Just compared "religion" and "science." Science passed religion around 1930, but not by much, and it's stayed the same. Church has beat science since around 2000, a bad sign.

bobover3 (imported) wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2010 4:21 am Just compared "religion" and "science." Science passed religion around 1930, but not by much, and it's stayed the same. Church has beat science since around 2000, a bad sign.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?cont ... 0%B0%2C%D0 %9D%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D 0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F%2C%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8% D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F%2C%D1%86%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE %D0%B2%D1%8C%2C%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B 2%D1%8C&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=12&smoothing=3

This one looks more interesting - 3 pairs of words, science, religion, church - both in uppercase and lowercase.

Look at 1917 (drop in church, appearance of religion on graph), coinciding with revolution.

1960-s to 1980-s - Science, the moving force of the society...

1990-s to 2000-s - drop in science, rise in church... fall of sovunion, and so on.

1937 - 1955 - hmm - Stalin?

This is really cool.

I just compared men and women, and it's a very surprising and distinctive graph;

Men far surpassed women constantly until about 1985, when the two lines approach and cross; women have been on top ever since.

StefanIsMe (imported) wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2010 4:24 pm This is really cool.

I just compared men and women, and it's a very surprising and distinctive graph;

Men far surpassed women constantly until about 1985, when the two lines approach and cross; women have been on top ever since.

I know for me, I always liked the woman on top.

River

Socialism above capitalism from 1960 to 1980, then capitalism takes over.

Justice above freedom until 1920. Since then, freedom dominates.

Always more white than black, but the gap narrows after 1980.

Always more homosexual than heterosexual!

Always more Republican than Democrat.

Always more New York than California.

The thing to remember is that these are just counts of word use. The numbers don't tell us whether the words were used in a positive or negative sense, and they don't account for different meanings of the same words. Still, this is a lot of fun.

...always had fun 'playing' with things and like River, I feel that a woman on TOP is a GOOD thing, and it is ALWAYS entertaining to see her "BOUNCING" her "stuff" right before your very eyes...

(...STILL preferring VaG-jayjay...)