He created code to spot correlations in public data sets and pump out ugly but hilarious graphs in response. Who knew that the number of people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool ...

The graph below, again from Google Books, shows the shift in language that marked this change in spirit: Up until the early 1900s, causation showed up more often than correlation in the corpus ...

Below each graph is a chart that shows the numerical ... we can’t explain and it inspires us to search for a potential cause.’ A good example of correlations leading to conclusions is the ...

No, not *that *hockey stick graph, this one: Thanks to a link to this post from Hobart over at geology.com/news, this blog has finally surpassed the 500 unique ...