r/ngrams

176 archived posts · Jun 2011 – May 2022

Google ngrams

r/ngrams

ngrams

Created Jun 22, 2011 · restricted

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A place to share your interesting finds using the Google ngrams viewer.

All r/ngrams posts must link to a Google Ngrams or Google Trends search query.

For discussion, please use r/ngrams_discussion. Here you can debate meaning of an ngram query result, policy, etc.

Tips and tricks

The dataset goes from 1600 to 2008, with lots of noise before 1800 (the default "start" time).
It takes practice to find "when" something happened. For instance, look at the number of years, e.g., "1940, 1941...".. Note that the popularity of a year's mention has a half-life of about 20 years and peak about 4 years after they happen. Same applies for events (Titanic, the film and ship).

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