Introduction
This page is to show some examples about the relationship analysis of history events and 1-grams word usage frequency.
The idea is initially borrowed from Jean-Baptiste Michel's "Quantitative Analysis of Culture". Currently, the search engine is limited to 1-grams, and case sensitive either.
Web Search Service
Examples Sports Ι Politics Ι Economy Ι People Ι Science
Examples from Science Paper
Example: slavery
http://sepc111.se.cuhk.edu.hk:8080/gbooks/search.php?keyword=slavery&submit=Search+Graph
Description:
Slavery during the Civil War (early 1860s).
Example: slavery
http://sepc111.se.cuhk.edu.hk:8080/gbooks/search.php?keyword=slavery&submit=Search+Graph
Description:
Slavery during the Civil Rights Movement (1955 - 1968).
Sports
Example: Olympics
http://sepc111.se.cuhk.edu.hk:8080/gbooks/search.php?keyword=Olympics&submit=Search+Graph
Description:
In the small trend graph, we can see some striking points (topper than its surrounding points.)
From the large detailed trend graph, we can get more accurate information, these points are:
1976's Montreal Summer Olympics, 1980's Moscow, 1988's Seoul, 1996's Atlanta, 2000's Sydney, 2004's Athens.
Politics
Example: China
http://sepc111.se.cuhk.edu.hk:8080/gbooks/search.php?keyword=China&submit=Search+Graph
Description:
In the small trend graph, we can see a point between 1963 - 1973, and the fluctuations in this period.
From the large detailed trend graph, we can get more accurate information, it is 1967, the corresponding event in China history is Cultural Revolution.
Economy
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Example: Recession
http://sepc111.se.cuhk.edu.hk:8080/gbooks/search.php?keyword=Recession&submit=Search+Graph
Description:
In the small trend graph, we can see some ups and downs points.
From the large detailed trend graph, we can get more accurate information, these points are:
1974 - 1977 (stock market crash, Secondary banking crisis), 1982 - 1985 (Latin American debt crisis, Bank stock crisis),
1989 - 1991 (US Savings&Loan crisis, Japanese asset price bubble), 1992 - 1995 (Black Wednesday, Economic crisis in Mexico),
1997 - 2000 (1997 Asian Financial Crisis, 1998 Russian financial crisis).
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Example: Recession
http://sepc111.se.cuhk.edu.hk:8080/gbooks/search.php?keyword=Recession&submit=Search+Graph
Description:
In the small trend graph, we can see a striking point and some fluctuations followed, it is the famous Great Depression from 1929 to early 1940s.
People
Example: Bush
http://sepc111.se.cuhk.edu.hk:8080/gbooks/search.php?keyword=Bush&submit=Search+Graph
Description:
In the small trend graph, we can see two peaks:
One is in George H. W. Bush's administration period (1989-1993), and the other is in George W. Bush's administration (2001-2009).
Science
Example: Flu
http://sepc111.se.cuhk.edu.hk:8080/gbooks/search.php?keyword=Flu&submit=Search+Graph
Description:
In the small trend graph, we can see a series of sharp fluctuation - it is about Russian Flu happened in 1889 - 1890.
