Google Ngram Experiments

Re:Google Ngram Experiments by moultano on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @08:47PM (#2073505)

Here's my set of them: http://moultano.blogspot.com/2010/12/history-through-google-...

I got totally addicted to this for 24 hours and couldn't do anything else. Completely amazing. I believe history now!

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Re:Google Ngram Experiments by RickRoll on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @10:44PM (#2073837)

>> I believe history now!

This statement makes so little sense ...

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Re:Google Ngram Experiments by moultano on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @10:58PM (#2073896)

For me this is the first time I've (indirectly) looked at primary sources. I'm no longer relying on the benevolence of some other expert, I can check the data myself!

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Re:Google Ngram Experiments by RickRoll on Thursday January 06, 2011 @05:03AM (#2074766)

Well 1st IMHO you can say you believe the version of history you've been thought in school (you didn't believe before there is any history?). Obviously there are different official versions in differ countries. For example according to US schoolbooks US was the primary reason Germany&Co lost WW2, but not so in Russian schoolbooks.

2nd I don't see how you've checked any data. Say you see word 'terror' is mentioned many times after 2001. What if most of the books say 9/11 was an inside job and there were no terrorist? The fact that the word 'terror' is used often in books doesn't mean there was actual terror going on.

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