This evening I spent a number of hours playing around with Google Labs Ngram Viewer, a fantastic tool that graphs word frequencies found in the huge collection of scanned books amassed by Google Books. It is as easy as choosing some keywords, selecting a language collection, choosing a timeframe and hitting return on your computer keyboard. In a flash the viewer graphs the frequency that the words occur in Google Books over time. Choosing multiple words separated by commas adds […]

Categories: Essays • Tags: China, Google