"Spurious Correlations ...
Subversive and clever, Spurious Correlations is geek humor at its finest, nailing our obsession with data and conspiracy theory..
He began pulling the funniest ones for his website and has since gained millions of views, hundreds of thousands of likes, and tons of media coverage. com and asking, "Wait, what?" Vigen has designed software that scours enormous data sets to find unlikely statistical correlations.
But that hasn\'t stopped millions of people from going to tylervigen.
Is there a correlation between Nic Cage films and swimming pool accidents? What about beef consumption and people getting struck by lightning? Absolutely not. is the most fun you\'ll ever have with graphs."--Bustle Military intelligence analyst and Harvard Law student Tyler Vigen illustrates the golden rule that "correlation does not equal causation" through hilarious graphs inspired by his viral website. "Spurious Correlations ..
