What we learned from 5 million books - Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel

2013-07-14

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Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words. (Filmed at TEDxBoston.)

Talk by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel.