What we learned from 5 million books (a funny TED talk)

zarx said:

SvennoJ said:
Relevant to this site, The Playstation brand puts the Xbox to shame, but the Nintendo dwarfs them both in modern literature.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Xbox%2CPlaystation&year_start=1980&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Xbox%2CPlaystation%2CNintendo&year_start=1980&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

More random fun facts:

Morals are in a steady decline since the 1800's while socialism has been taking a dive since the late 70's

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=morals%2C+socialism%2C+capitalism%2C+communism&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

The word Republican is mentioned 4 times as much as Democrat in modern literature

Since 1940 tomorrow has been more important then yesterday

Women were mentioned more then men from 1984 to 2002, but men are back in the lead again.

Intelligence beat beauty from 1970 to 2004 but no longer

Video games still have a lot of catching up to do against television and movies, but apart from a small dip in 1990 video games show strong linear growth while television peaked in 2000 and movies in 2002

actually Xbox is kicking arse you fogot to set the end date to 2008 and turn smothing off

Yeah, I forgot to check back when I noticed the default cuts off at 2000, no wonder :)

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