In this project I wrote a program using generics, packages, and the Google Ngram Dataset that investigated:
- The relative popularity of words over time.
- The relative popularity of categories over time.
- The hyponyms (hyponym: a descendant of a word. E.g. a "Maltese cat" is-a type of "cat") of a given word.
- The length of words.
In the year of my birth, apparently fish were more popular than cats. Here are a few hyponyms of "cat".
Apparently Menticirrhhus Americanus is a type of fish.
Using xChart plotting library, I plotted the popularity of words over time. It looks like the most important meal of the day is not as popular as lunch or dinner.