Tyler Vigen’s book, Spurious Correlations, is warm, funny and makes several very important points. According to Vigen, his book is based on dozens of correlations between completely unrelated sets of ...

With the explosion of interest in Big Data everyone in every department is looking for actionable intelligence. That’s great but there’s a downside: Trying to explain to, say, your VP of sales that ...

Who says statistics are dry and boring? Tyler Vigen, a Harvard Law student, recently created a fun website called Spurious Correlations. Tyler pokes fun by finding sets of numbers which, by random ...

The Spurious Correlations blog compares unlikely data sets, such as the divorce rate in Maine to consumption of margarine. Writer Tyler Vigen... Drawing Phony Connections With Mismatched Metrics SCOTT ...