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What we learned from 5 million books

2011-09-30T17:59:43.433Z

http://www.ted.com Have you played with Google Labs' NGram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.

An n-gram is a subsequence of n items from a given sequence. The items in question can be phonemes, syllables, letters, words or base pairs according to the application.

An n-gram of size 1 is referred to as a "unigram"; size 2 is a "bigram" (or, less commonly, a "digram"); size 3 is a "trigram"; size 4 is a "four-gram" and size 5 or more is simply called an "n-gram". Some language models built from n-grams are "(n − 1)-order Markov models".

An n-gram model is a type of probabilistic model for predicting the next item in such a sequence. n-gram models are used in various areas of statistical natural language processing and genetic sequence analysis.

Link to Google Ngram Viewer : http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Red%2CBlue%2C&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

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2011-01-20T11:59:48.903Z

Map_Of_Nuclear_Explosions_On_The_Earth_From_1945_1_Video_41bd5f38fb2c602

2010-07-10T23:29:02.407Z

Multimedia artwork

"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*
Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO

Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.

Worked for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer. Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art University, Tokyo.

Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.

Created artwork series expressing, in the artist's view, "the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons":

1. "1945-1998" © 2003
2. "Overkilled"
3. "The Names of Experiments"

About "1945-1998" ©2003

"This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."
Contact the artist:

Should you have any query regarding this artwork, please contact e-mail address below:

hashi123ping@amy.hi-ho.nepong.jp

* The number excludes both tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009).

http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/