Culling Data Visually with grams; Ngrams & Instagram

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Ngrams:
http://books.google.com/ngrams

Explore Cultural Trends @ Google Books Ngram Viewer. Type in a word like art education or phrase in one of seven languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese) and see how its usage frequency has been changing throughout the past few centuries.

*dataset’s quality is highest for English between 1800 and 2000.

Instagram:
http://instagram.com/

Capture and Share the World’s Moments.

A graphic design firm in Italy created a prototype for a physical digital polaroid camera, called the Socialmatic , with the housing designed to look like the Instagram icon to enable users to get prints of their shots, including those using photo filters similar to what Instagram uses.