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Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books
Jean-Baptiste Michel, 1,2,3,4 *† Yuan Kui Shen, 5 Aviva Presser Aiden, 6 Adrian Veres, 7 Matthew K. Gray, 8 The Google Books
Team, 8 Joseph P. Pickett, 9 Dale Hoiberg, 10 Dan Clancy, 8 Peter Norvig, 8 Jon Orwant, 8 Steven Pinker, 4 Martin A. Nowak, 1,11,12
Erez Lieberman Aiden 1,12,13,14,15,16 *†
1 Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 2 Institute for Quantitative Social
Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 3 Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138, USA. 4 Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. 5 Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. 6 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
7 Harvard College, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 8 Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, 94043, USA. 9 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Boston, MA 02116, USA. 10 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, IL 60654, USA. 11 Dept of Organismic and Evolutionary
Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 12 Dept of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138, USA. 13 Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 14 School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 15 Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 16 Laboratory-at-Large, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
*These authors contributed equally to this work.
†To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jb.michel@gmail.com (J.B.M.); erez@erez.com (E.A.).
We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing
about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this
corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends
quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of
“culturomics”, focusing on linguistic and cultural
phenomena that were reflected in the English language
between 1800

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