Business Buzzword Bingo
When I was at HBS, a bunch of us who sat in the back row (the "skydeck" in HBS parlance) would play buzzword bingo based on the class discussion.
Google books has a way of querying their books database for word frequency. I laughed when I saw this chart for "incentivize." It's the hockey stick!
it's a cool feature. I've never seen that before.
HA!! Put in the terms 'liberty' and 'communism', then try not to cry too hard.
Greg, if you search those two terms separately, it does look pretty bad. Search for "liberty,communism" to see both at once, and you'll be laughing instead of crying. Add "socialism" and it's even better.
search for "unprecedented".
I always liked paradigm, win-win, buy-in, and a Microsoft Corporate favorite, tee-it-up.
I searched for "microphone" and discovered a prescient text published by NASA in 1712.
The real travesty:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=scientific+method&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=3
Yes, my favorite drinking game word: "sustainability". Definite hockey stick. This rate of usage is entirely unsustainable and must be stopped.
Search for "tulip mania" the results nicely track, and predict, the US economic boom/bust cycle.
Some other fun things to plot there:
objectivism
police brutality
vagina
stateless society
principle
selfownership
Note that you can manually change the "smoothing" value in the URL.
This one gives me hope: ("learnings": http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=learnings&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=3)
I cringe every time I see that un-word in print. What's wrong with "lessons" (or, when I have a forgiving day, "teachings" or "take-aways")?
This one gives me hope: ("learnings": http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=learnings&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=3)
I cringe every time I see that un-word in print. What's wrong with "lessons" (or, when I have a forgiving day, "teachings" or "take-aways")?
Although this one gives me pause: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=liberty&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=3
You may find this tool of particular interest:
Wordle
An example of an interesting usage (not my idea):
SOTU 2010
Fodder from which to make your own:
All the former SOTU addresses
You may find this tool of particular interest:
Wordle
An example of an interesting usage (not my idea):
SOTU 2010
Fodder from which to make your own:
All the former SOTU addresses
You may find this tool of particular interest:
Wordle
An example of an interesting usage (not my idea):
SOTU 2010
Fodder from which to make your own:
All the former SOTU addresses
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Sorry for the triple post, stupid %^*%*% spam filter wouldn't allow a unified post through.
Clearly, anyone who wants to link to (GASP!!) three things MUST be spamming!
Equally obviously, you couldn't possibly program a spambot to do what I just did...