Learn One Thing A Day

Some wise words about time, money, study and knowledge from a very wise man! "If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States! ( from Wikipedia ) Source: http://www.quotationspage.com/

"During the voyage of life, remember to keep an eye out for a fair wind; batten down during a storm; hail all passing ships; and fly your colors proudly." slashdot.org

Today I wanna talk you about Google Ngram Viewer http://books.google.com/ngrams A very, very valuable tool from Google! First of all .. what is a n-gram ? According to wikipedia : In the fields of computational linguistics and probability, an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given sequence of text or speech. An n-gram could be any combination of letters. However, the items in question can be phonemes, syllables, letters, words or base pairs according to the application. The n-grams typically are collected from a text or speech corpus. So basically, a word is an  n-gram of size 1 (or unigram )  while " I am " is an n-gram of size 2 (or  bigram ), " the view is awesome " is an ngram of size 4 and so on... Now that you know what a ngram is let's see what Google Ngram can do for us. When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases (the ngrams )  have occurred in a corpus