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Google Correlate - Draw
- asselinpaul 13y agoThis is rather awesome.
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- solox3 13y agoVery useful for looking up what people care about: http://i.imgur.com/puNZMco.png http://i.imgur.com/puNZMco.png 1. (antidepressant drug) 2. "county jail" 3. "google" 4. "detention center" 5. (vinyl music database)
- scribu 13y agoSeems like the typical "pre-Plus" Google project: limited usefulness, but interesting from an engineering standpoint. Noticed that it still contains share buttons for two defunct Google services: Google Buzz and Google Reader
- hayksaakian 13y agoBad news for "linux" http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AWuHjnmaXanT&e=linux&t=weekly&p=us# http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AWuHjnma... Wow, I can share with Google buzz. /nostalgia
- devcpp 13y agoI tried the same curve and got open source and free software. This is rather depressing but it's predictable.
- rattray 13y agopredictable? how so?
- zanny 13y agofoss is a nerd thing. The general consumer has no idea what source code is in the first place, they often don't know what an application or OS is, they just click the thing on the screen to make facebook appear. So it loses search percentage because it isn't becoming a mainstream concept, which is sad. People should care more about their software freedom but they don't even know what software is.
- rattray 13y agoRight, I get why linux / FOSS in general adoption isn't high. But why declining?
- kristopolous 13y agoThe number of people, globally, using the internet, is still on that same near exponential growth curve that the first world nations were seeing in the late 90s. It really hasn't subsided; only gone to lower income brackets. Heck, half of the US didn't have reliable access to the web until I think 2002? And these late adopters, they are both non-english speakers and non-technical people. Additionally, the early adopters, let's take my parents, who had Prodigy in about 1990, are now using the web more for things like shopping and content consumption, then they did in 1998. If they wanted to watch the latest TV show, they can do that now online, AND they know this. Compare that to 2004. That will be reflected in the search terms. Also, there are internet phenomenons that are at the order of that which we have not seen. Psy's videos on youtube for instance; 1 ba-ba-billion+? That's insane. So yeah, Linux is left in the dust. Also, it's much easier than it used to be - take that from someone who's been using it since 1996 (?) I need to do a write-up some time soon of how good we have it now - for my own memory.
- NPC82 13y agoThis one made me laugh. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:bnqK1ZVJSUt&t=weekly&p=us# http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:bnqK1ZVJS...
- thetwiceler 13y agoAnyone know why "bruising" and "brown spots" are common in the summer? Not as nice as the canonical answer of "ice cream"... http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:UfmYZwminh7&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:UfmYZwmin... In case you're wondering what's popular in winter: it's lots of diseases!
- keesj 13y agoJust Google these words and add the word 'summer' to get some ideas. Here's what I came up with: Bruising: More children play outside in the summer → more bruises → more parents/children(?) Googling for it. Brown spots: Might be referring to brown spots in someone's lawn due to the weather? Or summer freckles?
- andymatuschak 13y agoStone fruit (peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines) are in season in the summer and easily bruise and get brown spots when they overripen.
- ishansharma 13y agoMy first try got me "free Blackberry software" http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AUbuw550lo6b&e=free+blackberry+software&t=weekly&p=us# http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AUbuw550...
- kh_hk 13y agoI got "blackberry support", spot on http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AWbipmJ-QHqq&e=blackberry+support&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AWbipmJ-...
- noja 13y agoI drew a penis, and it correlated with www.mail.google.com
- baseh 13y agoStrange, in my case, it correlated with the NSA. Well, I may have drawn a bigger one.
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- ghshephard 13y ago2011: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385932,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385932,00.asp
- magnet_ball 13y agoVery neat to find local trends. Try drawing a boom (immediate spike) at some point in time to find something that trended highly back then.
- _delirium 13y agoThis is a great brainstorming tool for doing light blogspam-style "journalism", if your readers don't know about it (which they probably don't). Draw something with a rather unlikely looking feature— a graph that strikes the reader as quite definitely not just random noise. See if you get anything interesting in return. If yes, conjure up a backstory, and write up a post in a confident, assertive tone, that closes with the graph as your "care to explain this?!" evidence nailing home your suspicion.
- benologist 13y agoThat's far too much effort when they can just monitor RSS feeds and reword someone else's work.
- solistice 13y agoWhy do you think they'd actually monitor those themselves? Get a bot to monitor them, and a text spinner to reword the texts.
- CompelTechnic 13y agoconfirmation bias in its most unadulterated form. excellent.
- _delirium 13y agoIn a way it's even an improvement on confirmation bias. With confirmation bias, you have a conclusion you want to sell, and selectively search for evidence that might support it. But with this suggestion, you search for interesting evidence, and then invent a conclusion that it might support, post-hoc.
- Strilanc 13y agoIt's actually cherry picking, not confirmation bias.
- ZirconCode 13y agoDraw a positive line which abruptly goes to 0 and invent conspiracy theories about what they're trying to hide from us. Is brooks pharmacy being censored by the government?! (1) Doctors hate them, lobbyists~ etc... Source: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:5J79rEBVGkI&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:5J79rEBVG...
- boulem 13y agohttp://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:zmsMT3XqC01&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:zmsMT3XqC... ok, so porn links are allowed in this
- kyle_martin1 13y agoStaircase growth then major drop = Yahoo http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:g1F7bodygJJ&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:g1F7bodyg...
- platz 13y agoPasta Salad spikes (July 4th anyone?) http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=pasta+salad&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=pasta+salad&...
- JulienSchmidt 13y agoIs the metric system cool now? http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AJrnBhwp5wJG&e=cm+inches&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AJrnBhwp...
- daenz 13y agoThe whitepaper describes an approximate nearest neighbor algorithm, but I thought this would use some form of signal decomposition...Discrete Cosine Transform or Fourier Transform.
- oakwhiz 13y agoIf I recall correctly, that only works on periodic signals, and not all the Google keyword trends are periodic.
- hornbaker 13y agoMy first try, with a hockey-stick growth pattern starting 2007. Expected a match with "twitter," instead got "baby poop." http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:iOj8ICadD9v&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:iOj8ICadD...
- zmitri 13y agoI believe twitter didn't start seeing crazy growth until 2009 once they focus on activating their users and moving away from the idea that everyone needs to tweet to use twitter. Google trends seems to confirm 2009 was when it started to really work too http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=twitter#q=twitter&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=twitter#q=twitter&cmp...
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- evanmoran 13y agoI tried drawing a "hockey stick" graph and stopped too soon. Got wamu =). http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Bds44NUk_m3&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Bds44NUk_... We miss you wamu!
- vowelless 13y agoSpikes in 2008 and 2012: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:pBuWinPLvPW&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:pBuWinPLv...
- whitewhim 13y agoPeak in 2005 and than a linear decline: "Linux firefox". http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AI9yHeUPqUAK&e=linux+firefox&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AI9yHeUP...
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- malkia 13y agoMake 100% on 2005, 2007, 2009, etc. and you'll have Cirque Du Soleil visits in San Francisco!
- gtrubetskoy 13y agoThe implementation probably uses SAX (Symbolic Aggregate approXimation). http://code.google.com/p/jmotif/wiki/SAX http://code.google.com/p/jmotif/wiki/SAX
- vxNsr 13y agowhat happened to htomail.com ? ;) http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AZYTVOj4sclQ&e=www.htomail.com&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AZYTVOj4... . . . . . . . Pulled from a search farther down in the comments section: Why was this a question... ever? http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3ApBuWinPLvPW&e=what+is+the+difference+between+lcd+and+led&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3ApBuWinP...
- freehunter 13y agoThat's a pretty legitimate question. At that time, LED TVs were starting to be marketed pretty heavily. I myself didn't understand what an LED TV was. Turns out it's an LCD but with an LED backlight, so it runs cooler and uses less electricity. The question isn't really the difference between LED and LCD, it's the difference between an LCD TV and an LCD TV with an LED backlight.
- vxNsr 13y agoHmmm... I guess I was kinda drunk when I asked that question because I read: "What's the difference between LSD and LED?"
- hnriot 13y agoThis reminds me of the fun I had in high school writing "shell oil" on my calculator.
- nrj 13y agoThis would also be cool if instead of search terms you could see stock prices.
- dkersten 13y agoPower rangers dino thunder apparently made some kind of comeback. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AFlLikxMOjJe&e=power+rangers+dino+thunder&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AFlLikxM...
- barista 13y ago"Please sign in to use this tool." That's all I see when I am not signed in. Too confident on Google's part that the people will always be signed in or do they actually need any personal info to use this tool?
- mortehu 13y agoMaybe it's a rate limiting thing? This is a relatively expensive search, and they probably don't want people to mechanically download all the graphs. The UI does support uploading your own time series data.
- gabipurcaru 13y agoTried a downhill curve and I got yahoo.com http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:IwiF_9hYUo3&t=weekly&p=ro http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:IwiF_9hYU...
- sirius87 13y agoThing I found most interesting about this is - it allows you to 'Share' your results on Google Buzz, Google Reader and, most shockingly, Facebook.
- graup 13y agoApparently the internet was (comparatively) less funny between 2006 and 2012: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AO6yJxanOGz_&e=funny+photos&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AO6yJxan...
- danialtz 13y agoCan someone elaborate on the method they use?
- dakimov 13y agoThis is hilarious.