The story
From culture + -omics (“study of the totality”); first described in a 2010 Science article by Harvard researchers Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden and a host of others.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
culturomics
Today it means: A form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts. Full definition →