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What we learned from 5 million books
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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.
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TED.com
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TEDTalks, TEDxBoston 2011, TED, Talks, Google, data, design, library, technology, visualizations, writing, 2011
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