Well last week I posted about Google Cultural Institute. Today I will post about something that Google came out with in 2010 but this simple online tool is still relevant as a tool for studying social relevance of words throughout history as recorded in books. You can see the Ngram Viewer by clicking here. For example if we look at "men" versus "women", we see women started to catch up to men in the early '70s as feminism really took off and ten years later caught up.
There are other interesting things that can be looked at in your social science class. To try yourself click here. Why is dog always more popular in the written word than cat? Easy, there are more dogs than cats!
Not so fast buckoo. It depends. See the following data for the US from the petfoodinstitute.org
There are many others you can play around with in a truly scholarly fashion. You would guess that Friday is the best day of the week. Not so fast.
Many others can be found by clicking here. As ususal TED ED has an awesome video about ngram as shown below. If you have the time, you may find it enjoyable. Well at least I did.
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