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Category: Ngram

  • Fun With Ngrams: Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia, 1965-1995

    Here’s the bigram relevant to evaluating some hypotheses I ventured in my“Garcia and Marley” post.  Figure xxx. Google Bigram: “Grateful Dead” and “Jerry Garcia”, 1965-1995 In that post, I hypothesized that “Jerry Garcia” and “Grateful Dead” would show an uptick 1986. On visual inspection the GD claim looks rightish: the 1986-1995 slope should be statistically…

  • Garcia and Marley

    At some point I will write up Garcia’s engagements with reggae. It’s an interesting story, really revelatory. In the meantime, on a lark, I played with Google Ngram for these two. Ngrams are a very neat tool. Figure xxx. Google Bigram: Bob Marley and Jerry Garcia, 1965-1981 The vertical is the percentage of all consecutive…