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Google Ngram Viewer

On October 14, 2010 Google announced that the number of scanned books is over 15 million. They did not simply scan those books, but they digitalized them. They can access not only image files, but the actual text. This allows Google to search in those books and to analyze the … Read More »

Data Visualization

The United States public debt increased from \$10.7 trillion in 2008 to \$14.2 trillion by February 2011. Google processes about 24 petabytes of data per day. About 21.9 people live in Mumbai. Today it is incredibly easy to gain raw data, but without context they aren't worth … Read More »