TEDTalks Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, What We Learned from 5 Million Books

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Summary: Google Labs' Ngram Viewer is an addictive tool that lets users search for the occurrence of particular words and phrases in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. In this TEDTalk, Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how the Ngram Viewer works, and discuss its role in culturomics - the application of massive-scale data collection analysis to the study of human culture. The researchers believe that data extrapolated from Google books can shine a light on societal trends, and, as they put it, "digitize the historical record."

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Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (14 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], c2011.

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General Note:	Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on January 28, 2012. Films On Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Formatted Contents Note:	Picture Worth a Thousand Words (1:48) -- Studying 5 Million Books (2:31) -- Charting Linguistic Changes (1:26) -- Trends in Interest (2:22) -- Peaks of Fame and Censorship (2:47) -- 'Culturomics' (2:51) -- Credits: TEDTalks: Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel- What We Learned from 5 Million Books (0:05)
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Target Audience Note:	9 & up.
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Language Note:	Closed-captioned.
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