You will be working on the Google Book dataset for this week’s individual learning homework. This dataset contains the word counts of ALL the books scanned by the Google Book Project, books that go all the way back to the 1600’. For now, you will be getting a slice of the dataset from 1900 to 2009, and only the top 10K most popular words.
There are 10 questions you must answer:
When we come back next Monday for the Hackathon, we will have a special honor guest, Danielle Szafir, who will be telling us about exciting research on data visualization. We will prepare more challenging hackathon questions for your team to work on. You will be dealing with the ENTIRE dataset.