Tomorrow’s Data, Tomorrow’s Water, and Tomorrow-Land
Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel
The nutshell: Scientists Aiden and Michel invented the Google Ngram Viewer, which allows users to analyze the evolution of language as captured in the millions of books Google has digitized. In Uncharted, they tell the story of how they developed this tool, explain some of their most trenchant findings, and demonstrate the potential of this data to illuminate the world we’ve …