Startpage Search Engine Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. ~cj, Seattle, 2008
Google Correlate Google Correlate is an experimental new tool on Google Labs which lets you use the same methodology and data as Google Flu Trends. What is Google Correlate? Google Correlate is like Google Trends in reverse. With Google Trends, you type in a query and get back a series of its frequency (over time, or in each US state). Correlated Queries When you upload a data set (a time series, for instance), Google Correlate will compute the Pearson Correlation Coefficient (r) between your time series and the frequency time series for every query in our database. For example, say your data set was a sine wave from 2003-2010, so that 0.0 is the summer solstice and 1.0 is the winter solstice. This could be generated in Excel using the SIN or COS function. To get your data into Google Correlate, you have two main options: Copy/paste from a spreadsheet program (Excel, OpenOffice, …)Export CSV and upload it to Google Correlate. We’ll use the copy/paste technique here. 0.9483 alpine touring 0.9439 nordica
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