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

[Mark KELLY]

I've been having fun with Google's nGram wiewer (e.g. charting the use of
"awesome" and "dude" over the past half century.)

This one is a bit disturbing...

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=software+development&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

I want to know what happened to Software Development in the 1990s!


On 24 July 2012 13:09, Paul MCMULLEN <MNP at wssc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

>  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
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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
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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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> *Paul McMullen*
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