{"id":922,"date":"2017-03-21T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/03\/21\/here-are-the-top-words-of-2016\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:26:00","slug":"here-are-the-top-words-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/03\/21\/here-are-the-top-words-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are The Top Words Of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently covered a project Google News Lab did called <\/span>The Rhythm of Food<\/span><\/a> about how food trends have changed over the years, but to celebrate 2016, they worked with Polygraph to create <\/span>The Year in Language 2016<\/span><\/a>. The project is simple: Google analyzed all the word searches from throughout the year to reveal how society embraces new words.<\/span><\/p>\n

The data is broken into five main sections: Word definitions, ranked by Search interest growth; Search interest for established words vs. 2016; Max. Search interest for established words; Search interest for words, 2013-2016; and Search interest for top rising definitions by state, 2015-2016. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

They identified 2016\u2019s most popular terms\u00a0by ranking search interest definitions. This means they looked at searches such as \u201cwoke definition\u201d or \u201cdefine woke\u201d to determine their rank. These are the top 10 words of 2016 based on their criteria: Triggered, Shook, Juju, Broccoli, Woke, Holosexual, Shill, Gaslighting, Bigly, and SJW.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For the top trending definitions, they only looked at emerging words, or terms\u00a0with minimal search interest in 2015 that steadily grew throughout 2016. This allowed them to eliminate established words such as \u201cemoji.\u201d During this time, each of the top rising definitions\u00a0of 2016 managed to obtain a level of search interest to distinguish it as a common searching, meaning they were being searched as frequently as common English words. Terms\u00a0from past years that have reached the same status would include \u201cselfie\u201d in 2013 and \u201cnetflix and chill\u201d in 2015. Unsurprisingly, \u201cselfie\u201d is now one of the most popular definition on Google and so far, none of 2016\u2019s top definitions have been able to reach the same popularity as \u201cselfie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This interactive chart they created compares different popular definitions\u00a0between 2013 and 2016. Clicking on each term produces a different colored line graph so you can see exactly how popular each word is relative to other popular words.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

You can also see how each word has fared by state and how the search interest has changed since the beginning of 2015. This chart allows you to see what definitions\u00a0are more popular in certain areas. For example, \u201c woke\u201d only peaked in the northeast and west while \u201cwavy\u201d only ever took hold in Virginia. <\/span><\/p>\n

Be sure to head on over to their <\/span>project site<\/span><\/a> to learn more. And if you haven\u2019t already, check out <\/span>The Rhythm of Food<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Via: <\/span>Flowing Data<\/span><\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Visual News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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