Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

New housing construction starts

correlates with

Baby Shark YouTube views

r = 0.98799% · 2016-2022
New housing construction startsBaby Shark YouTube views

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2016-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

New housing construction startsfred.stlouisfed.org
Baby Shark YouTube viewsen.wikipedia.org
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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