Ngrams, Applesauce and Billions of Words: Matthew Gray at TEDxBeaconStreet

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Ever wonder what all those words in all those books might be good for? Google has an app for that.

In this TEDxBeaconStreet talk, Google software engineer Matthew Gray discusses learning about culture, technology, language and even applesauce when you use the Google Books Ngram Viewer. Watch as he demonstrates several breakthrough projects now possible with a tool that can analyze billions of words from hundreds of years of books.

Words, they're not just for reading anymore!

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How do they solve for bias on increasingly number of users/writers/books?

andaluz
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How do they solve for bias when it comes to what to search for and what to compare?

And what about censorship, prioritizing and bias against books disliked by the developers?
All of this is no better than the quality of the selection of data.

nikolaisandbeck
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I bet this guy's daughter is a great Vice President

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