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If you like this sort of thing, you may also enjoy: 1) My website Correlated.org (http://www.correlated.org http://www.correlated.org), which has been generati

by jawns 11y ago

If you like this sort of thing, you may also enjoy: 1) My website Correlated.org (http://www.correlated.org http://www.correlated.org), which has been generating weird correlations based on users' survey responses for more than four years. 2) Spurious Correlations (http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations) by Tyler Vigen, which also offers wacky correlations, but based on publicly available datasets rather than survey responses. 3) Google Correlate (http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/draw http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/draw), which allows you to draw a curve, then find search terms whose popularity over time matches the shape you drew.

oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
correlated.org: there are 1,500 of those?! Bang goes my afternoon ...
sandaru1 11y ago
Correlated.org is quite brilliant. Is there a way to see the most popular posts?
ErikRogneby 11y ago
Is your correlated.org data-set or result-set available bulk or via API?
profinger 11y ago
I think my favorite is Google Correlate. I have no idea what the motorola tundra is but it got super popular on 12/21/2008 and then slowly fell out of interest by 2014.
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heynk 11y ago
Can anyone explain how Google Correlate works? I understand how a brute-forced approach might work, but is there any way of optimizing this?
- davmre 11y ago
  Locality-sensitive hashing should work: http://www.slaney.org/malcolm/yahoo/Slaney2008-LSHTutorial.pdf http://www.slaney.org/malcolm/yahoo/Slaney2008-LSHTutorial.p... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing
- sgk284 11y ago
  They link to their paper on the Google Correlate site: https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/nnsearch.pdf https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/nnsearch.pdf
juliann 11y ago
Google Correlate is weirdly fun.
theWheez 11y ago
Whoa! Getting a 500 on Google Correlate. First time I've ever hit a 500 on Google Services.
TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
Correlated.org interests me. Scrolling down the front page, it's fun to try and form connections and explain correlations to yourself (probably wrongly). Here are some of the ones on the front page I was able to think of a possible explanation for (many quite tenuous): > among those who would be willing to observe a prison execution, 68 percent say they tend to stick to their decisions. Sticking to your decisions might be a mark of social conservatism. In which case, being willing to observe someone being executed might correlate. > among those who need corrective lenses to read, 54 percent prefer to play with dominoes as a tile game, rather than by toppling them If it's myopia causing them to need glasses, well, myopia is apparently caused by not getting outside enough during childhood (and therefore not getting sufficient sunlight). Perhaps, then, more active people would enjoy toppling dominoes more and have gotten outside more during youth (thus not developing myopia). > among those who say that longevity runs in their family, only 26 percent like skim milk. Maybe skim milk is a more recent thing, and people whose longevity 'runs in the family' would be more traditional? I'm really grasping at straws here. > among those who use anti-dandruff shampoo, 54 percent say they are good Frisbee throwers. Apparently dandruff can be caused by greasy skin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandruff#Causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandruff#Causes) - is this more likely in more active people(?) > among those who have recently done something dangerous enough that they had to sign a waiver, 73 percent find Irish accents to be especially attractive I had two thoughts on this one: 1) Are people more likely to need to sign a waiver in certain countries? In which case, this might be a cultural thing. 2) People who've done dangerous things might be rather adventurous, and think Irish accents somehow symbolise that(??) > among those who like the taste of honeysuckle nectar, 61 percent say their favorite kind of doughnut doesn't have a hole in it Is honeysuckle nectar a sweet, fructosey thing? Well, doughnuts without holes often contain fruit jam. So someone who likes sweet, fruity things would be more likely to like both? > among those who don't like couscous, 54 percent have witnessed an animal being born People who live in the country are perhaps more likely to have witnessed an animal being born, right? (Though I suppose most people don't live on farms, hmm...) Since couscous is not a traditional foodstuff in the West, perhaps people living in the country, who are likely to be more conservative(?), would be less likely to enjoy couscous? > among those who think that the only things that really exist are material things, 60 percent would prefer a messy roommate This makes a certain intuitive sense to me, but I can't quite think of the words. The word 'hedonism' springs to mind, though might not quite be what I'm after. > among those who find it hard to tolerate oscillating fans, 58 percent do the Electric Slide at wedding receptions I wonder if this is a generational gap. > among those who like raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing, 69 percent like candy corn Like the honeysuckle nectar one, I suspect this is some common taste between the two foods.
Shish2k 11y ago
correlated.org doesn't seem to have updated in ages -- the dates keep updating, but the correlations stay the same...

by jawns 11y ago

oneeyedpigeon 11y ago

correlated.org: there are 1,500 of those?! Bang goes my afternoon ...

sandaru1 11y ago

Correlated.org is quite brilliant. Is there a way to see the most popular posts?

ErikRogneby 11y ago

Is your correlated.org data-set or result-set available bulk or via API?

profinger 11y ago

I think my favorite is Google Correlate. I have no idea what the motorola tundra is but it got super popular on 12/21/2008 and then slowly fell out of interest by 2014.

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heynk 11y ago

Can anyone explain how Google Correlate works? I understand how a brute-forced approach might work, but is there any way of optimizing this?

davmre 11y ago
Locality-sensitive hashing should work: http://www.slaney.org/malcolm/yahoo/Slaney2008-LSHTutorial.pdf http://www.slaney.org/malcolm/yahoo/Slaney2008-LSHTutorial.p... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing
sgk284 11y ago
They link to their paper on the Google Correlate site: https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/nnsearch.pdf https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/nnsearch.pdf

juliann 11y ago

Google Correlate is weirdly fun.

theWheez 11y ago

Whoa! Getting a 500 on Google Correlate. First time I've ever hit a 500 on Google Services.

TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago

Correlated.org interests me. Scrolling down the front page, it's fun to try and form connections and explain correlations to yourself (probably wrongly). Here are some of the ones on the front page I was able to think of a possible explanation for (many quite tenuous): > among those who would be willing to observe a prison execution, 68 percent say they tend to stick to their decisions. Sticking to your decisions might be a mark of social conservatism. In which case, being willing to observe someone being executed might correlate. > among those who need corrective lenses to read, 54 percent prefer to play with dominoes as a tile game, rather than by toppling them If it's myopia causing them to need glasses, well, myopia is apparently caused by not getting outside enough during childhood (and therefore not getting sufficient sunlight). Perhaps, then, more active people would enjoy toppling dominoes more and have gotten outside more during youth (thus not developing myopia). > among those who say that longevity runs in their family, only 26 percent like skim milk. Maybe skim milk is a more recent thing, and people whose longevity 'runs in the family' would be more traditional? I'm really grasping at straws here. > among those who use anti-dandruff shampoo, 54 percent say they are good Frisbee throwers. Apparently dandruff can be caused by greasy skin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandruff#Causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandruff#Causes) - is this more likely in more active people(?) > among those who have recently done something dangerous enough that they had to sign a waiver, 73 percent find Irish accents to be especially attractive I had two thoughts on this one: 1) Are people more likely to need to sign a waiver in certain countries? In which case, this might be a cultural thing. 2) People who've done dangerous things might be rather adventurous, and think Irish accents somehow symbolise that(??) > among those who like the taste of honeysuckle nectar, 61 percent say their favorite kind of doughnut doesn't have a hole in it Is honeysuckle nectar a sweet, fructosey thing? Well, doughnuts without holes often contain fruit jam. So someone who likes sweet, fruity things would be more likely to like both? > among those who don't like couscous, 54 percent have witnessed an animal being born People who live in the country are perhaps more likely to have witnessed an animal being born, right? (Though I suppose most people don't live on farms, hmm...) Since couscous is not a traditional foodstuff in the West, perhaps people living in the country, who are likely to be more conservative(?), would be less likely to enjoy couscous? > among those who think that the only things that really exist are material things, 60 percent would prefer a messy roommate This makes a certain intuitive sense to me, but I can't quite think of the words. The word 'hedonism' springs to mind, though might not quite be what I'm after. > among those who find it hard to tolerate oscillating fans, 58 percent do the Electric Slide at wedding receptions I wonder if this is a generational gap. > among those who like raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing, 69 percent like candy corn Like the honeysuckle nectar one, I suspect this is some common taste between the two foods.

Shish2k 11y ago

correlated.org doesn't seem to have updated in ages -- the dates keep updating, but the correlations stay the same...