197 pages
English language
Published May 11, 2015 by Hachette Books.
Is there a correlation between Nic Cage films and swimming pool accidents? What about beef consumption and people getting struck by lightning? Absolutely not. But that hasn't stopped millions of people from going to tylervigen.com and asking, "Wait, what?" Vigen has designed software that scours enormous data sets to find unlikely statistical correlations. He began pulling the funniest ones for his website and has since gained millions of views, hundreds of thousands of likes, and tons of media coverage. Subversive and clever, Spurious Correlations is geek humor at its finest, nailing our obsession with data and conspiracy theory.
This is one of those books, where the idea sounds much more interesting and fun than it ends up being.
I'm glad that it's such a short read, because these random correlations are funny for like three of those graphs, after which it's just boring. It's not because of his writing, his fun facts keep it afloat, he's not bad at that, but this topic just isn't good in my opinion.
