[Year 12 SofDev] [Yr11 Information Technology] What we learned from 5 million books

Mark KELLY kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
Wed Jul 25 13:33:41 EST 2012


And in this one...
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=transistor&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0
was H.G.Wells discussing transistors in 1905?


On 25 July 2012 13:30, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> I've been having fun with Google's nGram wiewer (e.g. charting the use of
> "awesome" and "dude" over the past half century.)
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> This one is a bit disturbing...
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> http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=software+development&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
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> I want to know what happened to Software Development in the 1990s!
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> On 24 July 2012 13:09, Paul MCMULLEN <MNP at wssc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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>>  Another great visualisation of data brought to you by Google.****
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>> At times a little ‘high brow’ and hard to understand one presenters
>> accent. ****
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>> But My students got the intent and the enormity of the data.****
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>> Quite fun playing around with it – especially some of the links on the
>> feedback comments.****
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>> What we learned from 5 million books****
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>> http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html****
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>> regards,****
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>> *Paul McMullen*
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>> *Wodonga Senior Secondary College <http://www.wssc.vic.edu.au/>*
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>> *69 Woodland Street*
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>> *Wodonga, VIC, 3690*
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>> *(02) 6043 7500*
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