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An edition of UNCHARTED (2013)

UNCHARTED

Big data as a lens on human culture

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By teaming with Google, they were able to analyse the text of millions of books. The result was a new field of research and scientific tool, the Google Ngram Viewer. Charts trends in human history across the centuries.

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Riverhead Books, Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA)
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280

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Subjects
Ngram Viewer, infamy, long data, irregular verbs, chart, bookworm, cohort method, google, book burnings, life-logging, culturomics, google books, fame, Social aspects, Culture, Big data, Internet, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Social sciences, research, Social sciences, history, sources
People
Zipf, Aviva Aiden, Norvig, Marc Chagall, Ebbinghaus, Andvord, Steven Pinker, Charlotte Saloman, Ulam, Ray Kurzweil, John Von Neumann (1903-1957)

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Table of Contents

1 / Through the looking Glass / 1
How many words is a picture worth? / 24
2 / G.K.Zipf and the Fossil Hunters / 26
Burn, baby, burnt / 51
3 / Armchair Lexicographerologists / 53
Daddy, where do babysitters come from? / 79
4 / 7.5 Minutes of Fame / 81
One giant leapfrog for Mankind / 120
5 / The Sound of Silence / 122
Two rights made another right /150
6 / The Persistence of Memory / 152
Mommy, where do Martians come from? / 182
7 / Utopia, Dystopia, and Dat(a)topia / 185
Appendix : Great Battles of History / 213
Acknowledgements / 238
Notes / 243
Index / 273

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New York, USA
Copyright Date
2013

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Library of Congress
QA76.9.D343 A3385 2013

Contributors

Author
Jean-Baptiste Michel
Book Designer
Amanda Dewey
Jacket Design
Jennifer Daniel
Author Photographer
Eliza Grinnell and Bret Hartman

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Hardcover
Pagination
280
Number of pages
280

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OL25607923M
Internet Archive
unchartedbigdata0000aide
ISBN 13
9781594487453
LCCN
2013036592
OCLC/WorldCat
837144847

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