Service: Google Ngrams (wikipedia: an online search engine that charts the frequencies of any set of search strings using a yearly count of n-grams found in sources printed between 15) PP Of the trillions of Google searches during that time, what do you think turned out to be the most tightly connected to unemployment? The highest during the period I searched – and these terms do shift – was “Slutload.” That’s right, the most frequent search was for a pornographic site. One day, I put the United states unemployment rate from 2004 through 2011 into Google Correlate. Service: Google Correlate (was shut down 2019 due to low usage) Goldman and other financial firms paid tens of millions of dollars to get access to fiber-optic cables that reduced the time information travels from Chicago to New Jersey by just four milliseconds (from 17 to 13). Of the top hundred searches by men on PornHub, one of the most popular porn sites, sixteen are looking for incest-themed videos.Īnd women? Nine of the top hundred searches by women on PornHub are for incest-themed videos.īig data allows us to finally see what people really want and really do, not what they say they want and say they do. This theory of Feud’s is falsifiable – and, at least according to my look at the data, false.
I found that food’s being shaped like a phallus did not give it more likelihood of appearing in dreams than would be expected by its popularity. No notes Part 2: The Powers of Big Data Chapter 2: Was Freud Right? On Google, the top complaint about marriage is not having enough sex.īut the places with the highest racist search rates included upstate New York, western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, industrial Michigan and rural Illinois, along with West Virginia, southern Louisiana, and Mississippi.Įconomists and other social scientists are always hunting for new sources of data, so let me be blunt: I am now convinced that Google searches are the most important dataset ever collected on the human psyche. Tagline: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are Introduction: The Outlines of a Revolution See Book Notes for other books I have read.
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