If you like to impress friends with facts, figures and spurious correlations between food consumption, auto sales and strange deaths, then you may be interested in Tyler Vigen’s site, where this young Harvard Law student posts charts correlating bizarre unrelated data.

Tyler created his website Spurious Correlations “as a fun way to look at correlations and to think about data.”

Empirical research is interesting, and I love to wonder about how variables work together. The charts on this site aren’t meant to imply causation nor are they meant to create a distrust for research or even correlative data. Rather, I hope this project fosters interest in statistics and numerical research.

Amongst some of Tyler’s charts are “Person on ground killed in air transport accident, which correlates with Apple stock price on January 1,” “US crude oil imports from Canada inversely correlates with Deaths caused by inhalation of gastric contents,” and “Divorce rate in Utah correlates with Suicides by explosive material.”

If your brain isn’t cluttered-up with all the other stuff out there on the Internet, then you might want to collect a few of these spurious correlations for future use.
 

 
Number people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool correlates with number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in.
 

 
German passenger cars sold in the US correlates with Suicides by crashing of motor vehicle.
 

 
Total number of Political Action Committees (US) correlates with people who died by falling out of their wheelchair.
 

 
Per capita consumption of sour cream (US) correlates with motorcycle riders killed in non collision transport accident.
 

 
Per capita consumption of cheese (US) correlates with number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets.
 

 
Age of Miss America correlates with murders by steam, hot vapours and hot objects.
 

 
H/T Popbitch