Tom Nice tool for those who make decisions and design strategies and funny for profanes like me. It's interesting and fun to find patterns and trends using correlate tool with the words I'm listing. Seasonality in some cases is amazing. Maybe resulting plots show what people collectively think, live and want.
September 11th World Trade Center Prozac Depressed Fashion Baseball Nascar Super Bowl God Complexity End of the world Science War Hurricane Google Obama Death Hope Cancer Job Recovery Universities Industry Sales Graduation Linux Fun 2011/9/30 Tom Johnson <[email protected]> > Is this any help? https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/ > > -tj > > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Has anybody been able to get anything useful out of that thing? Most of >> the items I've searched for return totally bizarre results. For example, >> searching on ibuprofen with the intent to see any correlations with >> influenza give this as one of the higher-correlated results: >> >> >> http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=ibuprofen&e=gateway+bible&t=weekly >> >> WTF? Does this show that on-line religion causes headaches? Seriously, >> has anybody found this tool to be of any practical use? >> >> --Doug >> >> -- >> Doug Roberts >> [email protected] >> [email protected] >> http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins >> <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> 505-455-7333 - Office >> 505-670-8195 - Cell >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > > -- > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > www.analyticjournalism.com > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] > ========================================== > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Alfredo
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