20th December 2010
Counting on Google Books
“The authors of the paper claim that the quantitative data gathered from the corpus are the bones that can be assembled into “the skeleton of a new science.” They call the new field “culturomics,” defining it as “the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture,” which “extends the boundaries of rigorous quantitative inquiry to a wide array of new phenomena spanning the social sciences and the humanities.”
