Deduplication Maps Tech’s Fight for Words

Deduplication is a clever data visualization project with genuine developer appeal: it makes technology’s habit of hijacking familiar language measurable, not merely anecdotal.

• –Wikipedia pageviews provide a transparent, reproducible proxy for semantic attention
• –The contested-term framing is especially useful for tracking jargon before meanings fully settle
• –Coverage across AI, crypto, gaming, cloud, and software makes the dataset relevant to tech researchers and writers
• –Its biggest limitation is that Wikipedia traffic reflects article quality, search behavior, and language bias—not total real-world usage
• –The open format could become more valuable if the project adds historical trends, multilingual data, or downloadable datasets