Posted in January, 2012

Culturomics is the study  and  quantifying of cultural trends based on massive quantities of data. Google Books Ngram Viewer The browser is designed to enable you to examine the frequency of words (banana) or phrases (‘United States of America’) in books over time. [pullquote]You’ll be searching through over 5.2 million books: ~4% of all books […]

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Reading One Book a Week

Its my resolution in 2012 to read one book a week for 52 weeks and write a book review on this blog. This is the second in the series. The book I picked for the second week contains “Slogans to live your life by” authored by Justin Herald. I have been occupied with family this […]

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Reading One Book a Week

This New Year 2012 I had resolved that I will read one book a week and write about it in my personal blog. Here comes the first one in the series.   I came across 2020 for the first time when I saw the Vision 2020 book by Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Ever since I have […]