Hello all you correlationers!
Welcome new members to the Correlation of the Week club bringing you coincidental relationships to help you comprehend the complicated world we live in! As you may notice, we don’t communicate a new correlation each week; but that doesn’t mean we’re not hard at work! It’s not our fault; some weeks really don’t deserve a correlation worthy enough to highlight. But this week is not one of them!
We think, if you’re anything like us Microsoft Excel is the backbone of our economy and is so wildly used to make the world a better place. But if you know enough about Excel you know that there are a lot of pitfalls where data can go wrong. One person we look up to is Matt Parker (Stand-up Mathematician) who recently wrote a book (Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World) and made a video titled “When Spreadsheets Attack!”. If you have 16 minutes, we recommend watching the video then check out his book! Anyways, you know that great Excel power comes with great risk and that’s exactly what’s correlated! The search popularity of Excel has an 89% correlation with the amount of deaths due to accidental falls from 2004 to 2015. So maybe pick your head up from your spreadsheet and be more careful!
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Data collected from Google Trends and CDC