TITLE:
War and Money in Ngram Viewer
AUTHORS:
Robert H. McFadden, William H. Zywiak, Ronald P. Bobroff, Gao Niu
KEYWORDS:
Ngrams, War, Money, Cost of War, Statistics
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.11 No.4,
November
1,
2022
ABSTRACT: The second and fourth authors 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.