Tyler Vigen has opened up the world of spurious correlations like no other with his aptly titled website, Spurious Correlation. Whether it’s the remarkably tight relationship between US spending on science, space and technology with suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation or a more loosely related relationship between Stanley Cup goals and Suicide by Pesticide (I made that one up myself!), Vigen is Johnny-on-the-Spot with fitting data for no greater purpose than amusement.
Via Kottke, of course.