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Google Correlate by Drawing
- notintokyo 15y agoHow is this so fast? I thought to compare charts like these you have to slide every chart over every offset to get the best match?
- waffle_ss 15y agoThey detail their algorithm in the "Methods" section at the end of their whitepaper: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/whitepaper.pdf http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/whitepaper.pdf
- danvk 15y ago(I work on correlate) The gist of why this is so fast is: 1. For the vast majority of queries, we only need to compare hashes of the time series, not the time series themselves. 2. We make no attempt to detect shifted correlations. The correlations you see are all synchronized in time.
- knowtheory 15y agoWell. That doesn't work on an iPad.
- javanix 15y agoOk, that is way too addicting to visit during work hours. I drew a standard bell-curve peaking in 2007 and then trailing off to zero into 2011 and everything was either Myspace searches or Washington Mutual credit searches. Pretty nifty.
- ayanb 15y agoFrom the whitepaper "Google Correlate employs a novel approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) algorithm over millions of candidate queries in an online search tree to produce results similar to the batch-based approach employed by Google Flu Trends but in a fraction of a second." --
- zerostar07 15y agoGood, so i dont have to worry i m bringing google down / google is going to put a cap on this
- sirclueless 15y agoHah. I did an exponential curve and sure enough there was "dropbox" at 0.9220 correlation.
- frankiewarren 15y agoMy exponential curve beginning in 2010 yielded "dubstep download." I guess we know what the kids are listening to these days.
- superted 15y agoI got Mailchimp: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Gd4UyqzZFUr&t=weekly# http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Gd4UyqzZF...
- danvk 15y agoIf you like the drawing interaction itself and want to re-use it elsewhere, there's a self-contained version at http://dygraphs.com/tests/drawing.html http://dygraphs.com/tests/drawing.html which also features a zoom and eraser tool.
- 3pt14159 15y agoI did a steady growth curve followed by a steep drop off: The result is amazing: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:lSkySxGeov3&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:lSkySxGeo...
- earlyriser 15y agoTesting a yearly and incremental peak give me the "nc state basketball". I guess something like this could give me the Oscars or Superbowl changing the peak time: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:nspW2uQjx78&t=weekly# http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:nspW2uQjx...
- shawndumas 15y agotreo! http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:YJ9-DbmR7bM&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:YJ9-DbmR7...
- judofyr 15y agohttp://d.pr/VHnF http://d.pr/VHnF Makes me wonder if web developers finally switched to full SSL, or if browsers stopped showing the error…
- shawndumas 15y agoBowl Championship Series http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:bg8K8Ts1oEK&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:bg8K8Ts1o...
- joeyespo 15y agoThis is fun. But apparently not "great fun" because according to this, great fun only happened in between 2005 and 2010. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:XfvUJGqnvo_&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:XfvUJGqnv...
- thinkzig 15y agoThings are never as fun as they were back in the good old days. :)
- iy56 15y agoAnd if you visit the parent page (http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/ http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/), you can search for a term and see it's graph, along with strongly correlated queries.
- clistctrl 15y agoThis is seriously an awesome proof of technology, but what is a practical purpose for it?
- danberger 15y agoApart from just being able to search by drawing (cool concept in it of itself), the practical purpose would obviously be the reverse: looking at the graph of any search query. But obviously they will never release that :)
- citricsquid 15y agohttp://www.google.com/trends/correlate/comic?p=1 http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/comic?p=1 Read this :-)
- pud 15y agoThe "comic book" link on Correlate is awesome. More sites should have documentation like this. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/comic http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/comic
- danberger 15y agoRegarding the Google Flu trend, a Wired magazine article talked about how Google could identify the location of flu outbreaks before the CDC could solely because of search (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_sergeys_search/all/1 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_sergeys_search/all/...) In epidemiology, this is known as syndromic surveillance, and it usually involves checking drugstores for purchases of cold medicines, doctor’s offices for diagnoses, and so forth. But because acquiring timely data can be difficult, syndromic surveillance has always worked better in theory than in practice. By looking at search queries, though, Google researchers were able to analyze data in near real time. Indeed, Flu Trends can point to a potential flu outbreak two weeks faster than the CDC’s conventional methods, with comparable accuracy.
- hasslblad 15y agoGoogle did this when they first launched Chrome too - http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
- Lewisham 15y agoOne (interesting?) thing to note is the Chrome comic was drawn by Scott McCloud, professional comic book artist extroidinare. The Correlate comic was drawn by Manu Cornet, who's a Googler: https://plus.google.com/106154493978299996445/posts https://plus.google.com/106154493978299996445/posts
- TomGullen 15y agoVery cool but quite useless. I guess you might be able to spot emerging trends if you spent a bit of time on it though.
- fsniper 15y agoIt's not useless. It has real world academic use cases where researchers need data which might be related. It's also documented in the comic book of this service. Also this is a service becoming real because of a real world problem.
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- lhnz 15y agoInteresting to see what is dying: English Chinese Dictionaries, radio stations, Altavista, lyrics, text messaging, Flash. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:deVob01-p_N&t=weekly#default,20 http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:deVob01-p... And look what's getting more popular: Porn video sites, video sites, Facebook, Mac computers and how to work them -- particuarly how to take screenshots: this should be a tip-off to those of you working at Apple doing UX. ;) http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:AbjtmD0iL9w&t=weekly#default,20 http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:AbjtmD0iL... Some of the stuff you would guess was becoming less or more popular but there is other stuff which is less obvious. edit: This is super interesting: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:SnghYCuBWFH&t=weekly#default,90 http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:SnghYCuBW... Looks like Hacker News is gaining popularity exponentially, too. :)
- thedaveoflife 15y agoLess popular as a Google search doesn't necessarily mean less popular, in some cases. For instance, I saw text messaging on your down trending list but that is obviously as popular as ever. People probably just don't feel the need to search it because it has become so ubiquitous.
- lhnz 15y agoThat is true: this only measures current interest levels. A decrease in the current interest level of text messaging only means that people are not trying to find out about it as much. However, why did it only start trending downwards in 2008? Text messaging was ubiquitous way before 2008. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AdeVob01-p_N&e=text+messaging&t=weekly#default,20 http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AdeVob01... Could it be the iPhone? Could it be the iPhone facebook app? Could it be BBM? (Or maybe I'm just reading too much into this...)
- fferen 15y agoFor a steady decline, I got Christian music, flash, and Japanese dictionary stuff. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:NUbDKLt6KW9&t=weekly# http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:NUbDKLt6K...
- swah 15y agoI wish there was someone I could talk about this IRL.
- cabirum 15y agoformatting hard drives is cool again! http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3Al7D8FQkv5Y-&e=how+to+format+a+hard+drive&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3Al7D8FQk...
- shawndumas 15y agobrown recluse http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AiGRSgJRIYH9&e=brown+recluse&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AiGRSgJR...
- nollidge 15y agohockey arena http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AP3Onqn66m-f&e=hockey+arena&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AP3Onqn6...
- reustle 15y agoSo the "web" really is a fad... http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:ie4JCwnHdHZ&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:ie4JCwnHd...
- lachenmayer 15y agoQuite the opposite; the web is becoming so ubiquitous that no-one has to find out more about it anymore.
- Groxx 15y agoInspired by this, I tried "the internets". I almost "wtf"ed out loud: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=the+internets&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=the+internet... edit: and then laughed at the highest correlation with "the internet": http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=the+internet&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=the+internet...
- ayanb 15y ago"Windows Mobile Pocket PC" , "Palm Treo Software", "Blackberry forum" and "flash flv" all have the same curve :) http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:BbGJxKXAQA0&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:BbGJxKXAQ...
- boredguy8 15y ago"Free Text Messaging" is an interesting 4 year period, though it looks like it's dead as a search term now. Is this because of Google Voice? Or did people give up on the idea? http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:g2VSqRc0np2&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:g2VSqRc0n...
- artursapek 15y agoI'd say a combination of Facebook chat, Google voice, and the announcement of Apple's new exclusive free-texting club. http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#imessage http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#imessage
- T-hawk 15y agoEverybody has unlimited texting on their phones now so there's no need. There was a time when unlimited texting was rare and not all phones even had SMS, so it was popular to use various free web-to-SMS gateways if you were at a computer and your recipient may not be. I used AT&T's gateway in particular to message friends for a few years before I got an SMS phone. There were also shady ad-strewn "free texting" gateways, some acting as frontends to the official ones, some with a Turk behind the scenes, and even some that didn't work at all but just faked a texting interface to serve up ads.
- zerostar07 15y agoApparently the acronym "OOMF" is hot right now: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:lhfq3Utw3XD&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:lhfq3Utw3...
- kubindurion 15y agosince I didn't know it is one of: OUT OF MY FACE OUT OF MY FOLLOWERS I post it so you don't have to google ;p
- kurige 15y ago1. Take historical end-of-day market data for a stock market index fund and graph it on Google Correlate. 2. Find out what terms closely track said index. 3. Set up an auto-trader that responds to changes in the search frequency for said terms. 4. Sit back and watch the money roll in.
- sc00ter 15y agoPossibly, but apparently 5 years of USD to EUR exchange rate data most closely correlates to searches for the king tut exibit! http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:l9QRCEVZgQT&t=weekly# http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:l9QRCEVZg...
- kubindurion 15y agoif only we could get better time resolution ;)
- geuis 15y agoI drew a random hockey stick. It kind of matches the rise of dubstep pretty closely http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AOjXjy3OzFbC&e=dubstep&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AOjXjy3O...
- addandsubtract 15y agoI got "youtube mp3 download" with a similar curve.
- erikig 15y agoThis can be an interesting way to identify hidden yearly trends too. Drawing a zig zag with peaks (more sawtooth than sine wave) at beginnings of the years yields some interesting results and some things I've never even heard of like "slapped cheek syndrome" or fifth disease. Apparently people are also extremely curious about the carbs in a grapefruit/orange at around the same time... Weird. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:xI5dDtGz4kc&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:xI5dDtGz4...
- danshapiro 15y agoI think you're seeing new years' diet resolutions.
- ColinDabritz 15y agoSo it looks like 'Depression' is on the school schedule (see the spikes down for winter break, the heavy correlation with academic topics) https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=depression&e=magnetism&t=weekly# https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=depression&... I wonder how much is psychology research, and how much is side effects of school? Some of the coincident correlations are really funny. https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=depression&e=magnetism&t=weekly# https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=depression&... It looks like OS X Lion had an unofficial mascot! (or the movie promotion timeline matched the lion hype buildup)
- anigbrowl 15y agoCorrelate is great, but the hand-drawn year-by-year search is really not all that useful - wither you have something in mind and prime your graph, or you get the obvious things. Monthly correlations, however, would be tremendously useful. Every industry has its own calendar, conference season, and economic 'tides', and understanding these is a key marketing task.
- jaekwon 15y agometa hockeystick, anyone? http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:OLR9M7vEAbQ&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:OLR9M7vEA...
- moultano 15y agoGit has apparently grown right alongside hackernews. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=hacker+news&t=weekly#default,30 http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=hacker+news&...
- artursapek 15y ago"Hot gf" is trolling a lot of these time series.
- artursapek 15y agoGoogle is beginning to do things that I think are going to kick current market-research strategies off their feet. They have most of our lives being fed through their systems; they know what's going on in the world better than anyone.
- wavephorm 15y agoDoesn't work on an iPad.
- lelf 15y agoDifferent time period gives “Oops” http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=hacker+news&t=daily http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=hacker+news&... Frustrating.
- schrototo 15y agoThis would be infinitely more useful if it was backed by some actual data instead of those utterly useless search activity patterns. Why not combine a search like this with something like Wolfram Alpha? What a waste... edit: Seriously, wouldn't this be so much cooler if it gave us a new way to explore mathematical and scientific data? If we could draw any curve and it would present us with matching constants, physical laws, mathematical proofs & theorems that have some correlation with the input data, chemical and biological data points, information from sociological studies, historical statistics...
- makepanic 15y agoreally love this: "football camps" http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Vv0RVxr9dJK&t=weekly# http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Vv0RVxr9d...
- shazam 15y ago0.9665 correlation between "iphone" and "cancel tmobile". Amazing. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=iphone&t=weekly&filter=iphone http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=iphone&t...
- tonio09 15y agoGoogle Correlate as well as Trends are awesome. Why is google providing these data mining services for free to everyone? How are they making money from it?
- socialmediaking 15y agoI got this on my first draw. I was looking at things growing rapidly from 2009 on. What are the odds? http://i.imgur.com/yYL1D.png http://i.imgur.com/yYL1D.png
- flaviojuvenal 15y agoGIFs are coming back. I believe it is because the huge popularity of GIF flooded Tumblrs of teenagers: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:4voTkH47-PL&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:4voTkH47-... Also, it is nice to see summer related results: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Rhcg3luECRt&t=weekly http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Rhcg3luEC... Spider Vein, according to Wikipedia, may be caused by "environmental damage such as that caused by sun or cold exposure". And Asiatic Lily is a flower that grows on July.
- sunspeck 15y agoThe comments here suggest that many folks don't realize you can correlate to a precise dataset, not just a hand-drawn trendline. Click the link next to the search button. "Enter your own data" or "Edit this data". Anyone got a good time series?