What we learned from 5 million books
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The talk
TED http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l4cA8zSreQ
dotSUB http://dotsub.com/view/2a7f9e71-c242-4ca4-bcf6-c2d86791bcf7
About the speakers
Erez Lieberman Aiden
Jean-Baptiste Michel
Related resources
In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html?pagewanted=all
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/176 (need free registration to read the full text)
Find out what’s in a word, or five, with the Google Books Ngram Viewer http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/find-out-whats-in-word-or-five-with.html
Ngram Viewer
- http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
- http://books.google.com/ngrams (newer version)
Materials on the slides
“Where do books come from?”
- The cartoon “I will do science to it” comes from here
- XKCD's cartoon “Stand back. I'm going to try science.”
“N-grams measure cultural trends”
- psychologist with fabulous hair is Steven Pinker
- statesman with equally fabulous hair is Thomas Jefferson
“De novo discovery of victims of suppression”
names on the slide:
Terms and expressions
Jon Orwant http://twitter.com/#!/orwant
Culturomics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturomics
Vogon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon
Errors in the transcript
75 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 We took a page out of XKDC, We took a page out of XKCD, 124 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 And he'd tell you, "Well most people say thrive, And he'd tell you, "Well most people say thrived, 152 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 and that's to tell Nietzche that God is not dead, and that's to tell Nietzsche that God is not dead, 195 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 is that we find that the bubble bursts fast and faster is that we find that the bubble bursts faster and faster