Finding the real Sesame (Seed) Street

Woah a double feature?!?!

From the Sesame Street correlation, it left us wondering “but how does one get to Sesame Street?” Even with all the technology these days, it’s hard to navigate the over four million miles of paved and unpaved public roads in the US. That’s a pretty crazy large number. The most miles ever put on a personal car is 3.25 million by Irving Gordon in his 1966 Volvo 1800S. Some say he just had a long commute to work but others think he was really trying to cover all the roads to find Sesame Street! Now if you’re trying to find Sesame Street, we think you need two things: Sesame Seeds and Streets! And that’s what brings us to our correlations! That’s right, the total miles of public roads there are is negative 81% correlated to the availability of Sesame Seeds from 2008 to 2015! The availability of Sesame Seeds has been declining in last couple years but we’ve been adding more roads so we’re bound to find it sometime!

* Miles of Public Roads shown in reverse order to better illustrate the relationship.

Special thanks to George who helped us make sense of this!

Data sources:

USDA: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-availability-per-capita-data-system/

Bureau of Transportation Statistics: https://www.bts.gov/content/public-road-and-street-mileage-united-states-type-surfacea

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