War and Money in Ngram Viewer
- 1 Finance Department, Bryant University, Smithfield, USA
- 2 Veterans Services Office, Community College of RI, Lincoln, USA
- 3 Mathematics and Economics Department, Bryant University, Smithfield, USA
- 4 History, Literature, Arts, and Cultural Studies Department, Bryant University, Smithfield, USA
- 5 Mathematics and Economics Department, Bryant University, Smithfield, USA
Abstract
The second and fourth author s have been inviting Intro to Applied Analytics and Statistics 1 students to use the Ngram Database to explore historical topics of their choosing. This is the first article derived from this exercise. The first author examined the historical relationship between war and money from 1775 to 2005 in the American English corpus. This is followed by an examination of the 3-gram “cost of war” in the American English and British English corpora. Specific to the analyses presented here several military and economic events are discussed. More specifically, both economies and wars are somewhat unpredictable, with wars being more so. Through this exercise , more experience with statistics and a greater appreciation of history are achieved.
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