Today I ran into a new Google search engine I did not know yet and which is very interesting. You can find it under the following URL: Google ngrams
Working in the field of data management and data mining I thought it would be interesting to see the activity in our sector and compare it to something everybody knows. "Football" was not a correct choice because there is also "soccer" and because it excludes half of the writing population.
So I chose "sex" which does not exclude populations, is widely known and written about.
Next to that I added the terms "database", "big data", "interactive analysis", "data analysis" and "performance indicators". All well known terms in our world and know to the mostly a masculine part of the population.
I did a comparison on both American English and British English.
If we look at the search results (until 2008 unfortunately) we can see that after Woodstock the interest in sex experienced a boom in the USA and started to decline at the beginning of the 80's, only to slightly revive during the "cigar affair"of president Clinton and eventually to decline after the year 2000. No interest any more in sex in the USA.
Databases seem to have their Woodstock in the beginning of the 80's and sharply decline after the year 2000. "Data Analysis" is coming up the same time but stays pretty stable since. Nobody is interested in "Big Data" for now and the same for "performance indicators" and "interactive analysis". Who cares.
If we look at the Britisch English results they are different:
The interest in "sex" started way earlier already in the mid 60's growing again all the way to the "cigar affair" of president Clinton and also showing a decline afterwards but the interest is rising again after 2005.
The interest in "databases" seem to be correlated to "sex" but in a way that when there is more interest in sex there is less interest in databases and visa versa. Maybe this is related to the "James Bond" image the British have where spying always comes before or after the sex.
Next to that there seems to be an increasing interest in "data analysis" and "interactive analysis", much more than on the American English side.
As for American English there is also no interest at all in "Big Data" on the British English side.
I wrote this article to show you that if you want you can find a correlation between anything and everything.
The university of Washington started a new course called Data Science and the goal of this course is to prevent these kind of false predictions and professionalise the business.
Check it out on Course Data Science at the university of Washington
PS: Are you a data science analyst? Are these terms familiar?
Working in the field of data management and data mining I thought it would be interesting to see the activity in our sector and compare it to something everybody knows. "Football" was not a correct choice because there is also "soccer" and because it excludes half of the writing population.
So I chose "sex" which does not exclude populations, is widely known and written about.
Next to that I added the terms "database", "big data", "interactive analysis", "data analysis" and "performance indicators". All well known terms in our world and know to the mostly a masculine part of the population.
I did a comparison on both American English and British English.
Databases seem to have their Woodstock in the beginning of the 80's and sharply decline after the year 2000. "Data Analysis" is coming up the same time but stays pretty stable since. Nobody is interested in "Big Data" for now and the same for "performance indicators" and "interactive analysis". Who cares.
If we look at the Britisch English results they are different:
The interest in "databases" seem to be correlated to "sex" but in a way that when there is more interest in sex there is less interest in databases and visa versa. Maybe this is related to the "James Bond" image the British have where spying always comes before or after the sex.
Next to that there seems to be an increasing interest in "data analysis" and "interactive analysis", much more than on the American English side.
As for American English there is also no interest at all in "Big Data" on the British English side.
I wrote this article to show you that if you want you can find a correlation between anything and everything.
The university of Washington started a new course called Data Science and the goal of this course is to prevent these kind of false predictions and professionalise the business.
Check it out on Course Data Science at the university of Washington
PS: Are you a data science analyst? Are these terms familiar?
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