Reference no: EM133308080
Assignment:
For this problem, you will be using the Google Books corpus to look at the frequency of a few English words over time. Read all the following instructions carefully and answer the questions that follow.
a. Open up Google Ngrams.
b. Enter exactly the following text into the search bar: mathematician, physicist, chemist, programmer (with no extra punctuation). The commas are necessary so that the computer knows you are searching for four separate words (and not "mathematician physicist chemist programmer" as one phrase).
c. Make sure you have the default settings.
- date range: 1800-2019
- corpus: English (2019)
- Case-Insensitive
- Smoothing: 3
d. Run the search. Take a screenshot of the resulting graph and include it in your answer.
e. Note: The X axis of the graph (left to right) shows the year, while the Y axis (up and down) shows the frequency of each word in the corpus. Each line represents the change in frequency of the word over time.
f. If you hover your mouse cursor over the graph, it will show you the exact frequency of each word in the corpus for a given year. If you click a line, it will highlight that line by itself. g. Use the graph to answer the following short answer questions.
1. Approximately what year does "chemist" have the highest frequency? (I.e. what year does the line for "chemist" hit its highest peak?)
2. "Programmer" is almost nonexistent in the corpus at ?rst, but at some point it becomes much more frequent (the line jumps up). What is the first year that the frequency of "programmer" gets above 0.0001%?
3. Based on real-world knowledge, why do you think the word "programmer" suddenly becomes more frequent around that time? (One sentence is fine.)