Baby and Jesus Are the Top Two Names Used in Popular Music? Go On….

Want another reason to teach computer science in humanities classes? Check this out. In their latest project, the data journalists over at The Pudding identified the most popular names used in music over the last few decades. You can search by name, frequency, and a ton more. Readers and teachers can get an awful lot out of applying some simple text mining methods to literary and cultural texts. The result might not be definitive answers, but rather new ways to ask interesting questions.