Learning goals

• Learn about interfaces for analyzing and visualizing data sets
• Learn about Google’s Ngram Viewer
• Form a hypothesis about words/phrases and see if you can test it using Google’s Ngram tool

What to do

Use the Google Ngram viewer to test a hypothesis about history or culture.

Create a report in a document called NGramExperiment in your shared Google drive folder. It should have the following information:

1. Your hypothesis: a statement about history or culture that is either or true or false
2. A description of your experiment: what search terms can you give to the Google NGram viewer to test your hypothesis
3. Discussion of results: show the results plot produced by the NGram viewer, and discuss whether they support your hypothesis, and to what extent
4. Threats to validity: can you think of any reasons why the results might not be an accurate reflection of the phenomenon you are trying to measure?

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