A picture is worth 500 billion words: Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel at TEDxBoston

“[Google’s digtized books] are very practical and extremely awesome.“ Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel from Harvard University use the 15 million books scanned and digitized by Google to show how a visual and quantitative analysis of text can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.  In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a pogra