The Technium : Culturomics

Introduction à la “Culturomics”
►http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/09/culturomics.php

In their paper “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books” the authors report their findings when they examine not just two trends but hundreds of vectors at once.

We show how this approach can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.

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et une conf TEDx
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l4cA8zSreQ&feature=player_embedded

#science #linguistique #histoire #google #books

The Technium : Culturomics
►http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/09/culturomics.php

#Culturomics ou l’approche informatique de la #culture (voire, du culturôme !)
►http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/09/culturomics.php

The Google/University consortium has digitized about 15 million #books so far. Researchers at Harvard took the full text of the most reliable 5 million books, combined their texts into one file and treated their 6 billion words as a single text. As they report in the journal Science in December 2010, they then analyzed the patterns of word usage in this aggregated book text.

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►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l4cA8zSreQ&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1

#google