tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post6237909971391352830..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: A new tool for intellectual historyDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-53160355028114284602010-12-21T16:03:41.619-05:002010-12-21T16:03:41.619-05:00The tool is amazing! I did read about it in the ne...The tool is amazing! I did read about it in the newspapers but just tried it now after reading your post. I think it can be very insightful in many cases. <br /><br />There is just a small thing though - it doesn't take the context right? When you plotted Newton vs Einstein vs Darwin, my first guess would be that Newton would be totally overshadowed. However, it turns out the other way - Newton trumps both of them. I am assuming there could be some other reasons for this, the first that comes to mind is that newton is also a unit of force, which should be used commonly. Do you think Newton as used in the context of talking about the scientist was more popular than Einstein even during the 50's and 60's?Siddharthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05135145441968614097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-9998580963930068412010-12-21T08:18:08.291-05:002010-12-21T08:18:08.291-05:00The anthropology-ethnography plot is excellent, se...The anthropology-ethnography plot is excellent, seems like a good picture of the discipline.<br /><br />I tried one of my own: plotting "efficiency" vs. "productivity." I was trying to see if I could see some reflection of what <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Condition-Postmodernity-Enquiry-Origins-Cultural/dp/0631162941" rel="nofollow">David Harvey</a> calls a change from Keynesian Fordism to a regime of flexible accumulation. And the relative amounts of "productivity" seemed to rise in the 1970s while that of "efficiency" seemed to drop. See <a href="http://cogsciresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-contribution-to-google-ngrams-show.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>scritichttp://cogsciresearch.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com