An edition of UNCHARTED (2013)
UNCHARTED
Big data as a lens on human culture
By Erez Aiden
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Riverhead Books,Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA)
Language
eng
Pages
280
Description:
By teaming with Google, they were able to analyse the text of millions of books. The result was a new field of research and scientific tool, the Google Ngram Viewer. Charts trends in human history across the centuries.
subjects: Ngram Viewer, infamy, long data, irregular verbs, chart, bookworm, cohort method, google, book burnings, life-logging, culturomics, google books, fame, Social aspects, Culture, Big data, Internet, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Social sciences, research, Social sciences, history, sources, Data mining, Modern Civilization, Google (Firm)
People: Zipf, Aviva Aiden, Norvig, Marc Chagall, Ebbinghaus, Andvord, Steven Pinker, Charlotte Saloman, Ulam, Ray Kurzweil, John Von Neumann (1903-1957)