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Google Correlate - Draw

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Re: Google Correlate - Draw

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Post by Strilanc »

CompelTechnic wrote: post #36
_delirium wrote: post #21

This 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 wi…

confirmation bias in its most unadulterated form. excellent.

It's actually cherry picking, not confirmation bias.

Re: Google Correlate - Draw

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Post by ZirconCode »

_delirium wrote: post #21

This 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 wi…

Draw 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:5J79rEBVG...

Re: Google Correlate - Draw

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Post by oakwhiz »

daenz wrote: post #32

The whitepaper describes an approximate nearest neighbor algorithm, but I thought this would use some form of signal decomposition...Discrete Cosine Transform or Fourier Transform.

If I recall correctly, that only works on periodic signals, and not all the Google keyword trends are periodic.
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