← Discover a correlation

Data source: Caclculated using Astropy
Additional Info: ^{See full details} I wrote a Python script using Astropy to calculate the distance between the named planets on the first day of each month for every year.

Report an error

---

The distance between Neptune and Mercury correlates with...

Variable	Correlation	Years	Has img?
Popularity of the first name John	r=0.98	48yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Micheal	r=0.98	48yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Mary	r=0.98	48yrs	No
Remaining Forest Cover in the Brazilian Amazon	r=0.98	36yrs	Yes!
Popularity of the first name Monica	r=0.98	48yrs	No
Arson in United States	r=0.97	38yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Michelle	r=0.96	48yrs	No
Popularity of the first name James	r=0.96	48yrs	No
Burglary rates in the US	r=0.96	38yrs	No
Viewership count for Days of Our Lives	r=0.95	47yrs	No
Air pollution in Oxnard, California	r=0.95	44yrs	No
Kerosene used in Thailand	r=0.95	42yrs	No
Milk consumption	r=0.94	32yrs	No
The marriage rate in Wyoming	r=0.93	23yrs	No
Robberies in the US	r=0.92	38yrs	No
Kerosene used in Cuba	r=0.92	42yrs	No
Kerosene used globally	r=0.91	42yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Russell	r=0.91	48yrs	No
Kerosene used in Peru	r=0.89	42yrs	No
Votes for Democratic Senators in Louisiana	r=0.86	15yrs	Yes!
Votes for the Republican Presidential candidate in Washington, D.C.	r=0.82	12yrs	Yes!
Petroluem consumption in Azerbaijan	r=0.8	30yrs	Yes!
Highest Nielsen rating for a TV show each year	r=0.79	46yrs	Yes!
Google searches for 'why isnt 11 pronounced onety one'	r=0.68	19yrs	No

---

The distance between Neptune and Mercury also correlates with...

<< Back to discover a correlation

^{What is Sys. Score?} You caught me! While it would be intuitive to sort only by "correlation," I have a big, weird database. If I sort only by correlation, often all the top results are from some one or two very large datasets (like the weather or labor statistics), and it overwhelms the page.

I can't show you *all* the correlations, because my database would get too large and this page would take a very long time to load. Instead I opt to show you a subset, and I sort them by a magic system score. It starts with the correlation, but penalizes variables that repeat from the same dataset. (It also gives a bonus to variables I happen to find interesting.)