Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books

We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of 'culturomics,' focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were reflected in the...

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Published in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 331; no. 6014; p. 176
Main Authors:	Michel, Jean-Baptiste, Shen, Yuan Kui, Aiden, Aviva Presser, Veres, Adrian, Gray, Matthew K, Pickett, Joseph P, Hoiberg, Dale, Clancy, Dan, Norvig, Peter, Orwant, Jon, Pinker, Steven, Nowak, Martin A, Aiden, Erez Lieberman
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 14.01.2011
Subjects:	Algorithms Cultural Evolution Culture Data Collection Dictionaries as Topic Encyclopedias as Topic Famous Persons Humanities Linguistics Literature Social Sciences Technology Vocabulary
ISSN:	1095-9203, 1095-9203
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