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Spurious Correlations: The CRAN Package

Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda has released an R package:

The goal of spuriouscorrelations is to keep alive the amazing examples fromĀ Tyler Vigen. Unfortunately, as of 2023-10-09, the website is down as my students noticed. Therefore, I decided to use the snapshot from the Internet Wayback Machine to save the datasets from 2023-06-07.

Click through to see how you can re-live those old charts, using the example of “number of people who drowned by falling into a pool” versus “films Nicolas Cage appeared in” on an annual basis. H/T R-Bloggers.

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