Heatmaps and Spurious Correlations

November 23, 2012 in Irreverant and Irrelevant

 

Today’s XKCD was good enough to share. As both Sean’s spurious correlations and my pixel maps are relevant, I figure some of you might get a good laugh, too.

There are also a lot of global versions of this map showing traffic to English-language websites which are indistinguishable from maps of the location of internet users who are native English speakers.

As always, the alt-text might be the best part.

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