What we learned from 5 million books

Title:: What we learned from 5 million books
Speaker:: Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden
Description:: 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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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 13:48

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