Slang words of 2020, using data science!

In which I determine the slang words that took over the Internet in 2020, using Google Trends and data science!

Inspiration from The Pudding: https://googletrends.github.io/year-in-language/index.html#
Link to code/write-up: https://towardsdatascience.com/the-hottest-slang-of-2020-according-to-google-trends-data-7bae348409b4

0:00 Intro
0:20 Methodology
1:34 Example words that aren’t considered ‘slang’
3:09 Google trends is kinda wack
4:24 The top 10 words!
5:00 #10
5:40 #9
6:18 #8
7:24 #7
7:53 #6
8:26 #5
9:00 #4
9:18 #3
10:18 #2
10:50 #1
11:35 Most of these words aren’t “traditional” slang
12:26 Examining the origins of slang?
13:17 Outro

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