{"id":282,"date":"2011-05-25T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2011-05-25T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T23:45:55","slug":"282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Correlation fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently put a thing called <a href=\"http:\/\/correlate.googlelabs.com\">Google correlate<\/a> up in their labs.<\/p>\n<p>You enter a query and it finds other queries whose volumes correlate with your query in time. If your query has spikes at different times since 2003, then in practical terms, <a href=\"http:\/\/correlate.googlelabs.com\">Google correlate<\/a> finds other queries that spiked at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Fine.<\/p>\n<p>The fun part is that you can shift your query in time. If, say, you shift your query by -37 weeks (a pleasant prime number not very near any natural time cycle), you can find other queries that ebb, flow and spike 37 weeks after yours.<\/p>\n<p>OK.<\/p>\n<p>So, try &#8220;osama bin laden&#8221; shifted -37 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The results: Three &#8220;aim 5&#8221; queries and &#8220;best dvd rentals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidence? You decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently put a thing called Google correlate up in their labs. You enter a query and it finds other queries whose volumes correlate with your query in time. If your query has spikes at different times since 2003, then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=282\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggy-things","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}