Charts that use two different scales on the same vertical often get the…
correlation
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Arguing in favor of dual axes to show correlation
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Spotting spurious correlations in health news
When it comes to diet and health, you might see one day that…
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Airport runway orientation reveals wind patterns
Airport runways orient certain directions that correlate with wind direction in the area.…
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Waffle House index as a storm indicator
Waffle House activated their storm center in preparation for Hurricane Florence. Their restaurants…
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Common statistical interpretation mistakes
Statistics is a game of subtleties, and you lose when you don’t pay…
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Game: Guess the correlation
Guess the Correlation is a straightforward game where you do just that, and…
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Gender prediction through trivia performance
Todd Schneider likes trivia, and he plays in an online league called LearnedLeague.…
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Fake correlation
Gabriel Rossman, a sociology professor at UCLA, describes colliders — or when correlation…
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Random things that correlate
This is fun. Tyler Vigen wrote a program that attempts to automatically find…
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Causation is real, people
Stop global warming. Decrease the National Science Foundation’s R&D budget. It’s so easy.…
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Cell phones and cancer
xkcd pokes fun at correlation and causation again. Funny every time.…
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Google Correlate lets you see how your data relates to search queries
A while back, Google showed how Influenza outbreaks correlated to searches for flu-related…
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Correlating dog
From the Doghouse Diaries. Smart dog. My cat on the other hand, still…
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Facebook status updates: young people are self-centered and old ramble
The Facebook Data Team had a quantitative look at status updates by age…
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Because It’s Friday: Correlation
It’s time like these I feel like one big nerd.
[xkcd | Thanks,…