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New housing construction starts

correlates with

Elon Musk tweets per year

r = 0.91491% · 2015-2022
New housing construction startsElon Musk tweets per year

These two datasets have a 91% correlation over 2015-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

New housing construction startsfred.stlouisfed.org
Elon Musk tweets per yearvisualcapitalist.com
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