Let's look at phrases that are commonly used in 2018 and 2017 PyCon talks¶

In this chart, noun phrases occuring in 2017 and 2018 PyCon absracts are plotted. The position on the x-axis is proportional to the frequency the noun phrase occured in the set of abstracts, while the y-axis position is higher if the phrase was more associated with 2018 and lower if it was more associated with 2017.

The following two charts use the difference in dense ranks metric of term-class assocation.

2018 was the year of best practices. The phrase "real world" was used in 2018 abstracts, but not nearly as much as in 2017. Still, dominated both years as a topic, but gained steam in 2018.