New housing construction starts
correlates with
Gangnam Style YouTube views
r = 0.98598% · 2012-2022
New housing construction startsGangnam Style YouTube views
These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2012-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.
Data Sources
New housing construction startsfred.stlouisfed.org ↗
Gangnam Style YouTube viewsen.wikipedia.org ↗
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation