N-Gram

Ngram viewer for Google Books provides a fun way of investigating words and phrases that have occured in books over centuries.

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Google created a simple visualization tool that shows the data and makes it easily queryable. The purpose of this tool is to give first insights and spawn ideas, which can then lead to a deeper analysis. What I find most exciting about this project, is that Google enables everyone (no programming skills necessary) to ask questions and dig into a century old corpus of accumulated wisdom in over 5 million books in 6 languages. A very simple but powerful use case of the Ngram Viewer is to compare ideas, products, concepts, etc. over time. From this blog