I've been having fun with Google's nGram wiewer (e.g. charting the use of "awesome" and "dude" over the past half century.)<br><br>This one is a bit disturbing...<br><br><a href="http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=software+development&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3">http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=software+development&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3</a><br>
<br>I want to know what happened to Software Development in the 1990s!<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 July 2012 13:09, Paul MCMULLEN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MNP@wssc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">MNP@wssc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Another great visualisation of data brought to you by Google.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At times a little ‘high brow’ and hard to understand one presenters accent.
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<p class="MsoNormal">But My students got the intent and the enormity of the data.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Quite fun playing around with it – especially some of the links on the feedback comments.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN">What we learned from 5 million books<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d">Paul McMullen<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.wssc.vic.edu.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">Wodonga Senior Secondary College</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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