Friday, December 28, 2012

Fetch and plot data from the Google Ngram Viewer using Python

Take a look at this Github repo for a Python script that can be used to fetch data from the Google Ngram Viewer. See the README file in the repo for instructions on how to use the script, as well as the PLOTTING file for instructions on how to plot the data in Python using pandas.

The Python script is a modified version of the Python script from the culturomics.org website.

To see an example of the type of research that's being done using the Google Ngram Viewer, check out this TED Talk by the creators of culturomics.org at Harvard.

NOTE: Be nice to the Google servers and don't beat them to death with this script.

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