Sunday, February 23, 2014

Ngram Games

Google Ngram is fun to play with.  Here is a comparison of mentions in books from 1850 to 2008 of three of the leading American political figures of the pre-Civil War era, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John C Calhoun with two figures active at the same time but less well known in that era, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.  Take a look at the trend over time.


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