| Title: | Datasets with Strong and Spurious Correlations |
| Version: | 0.2 |
| Description: | Provides datasets from Vigen (2015) rescued from the Internet Wayback Machine. These should be preserved for statistics introductory courses as these make it very clear that correlation is not causation. |
| License: | CC0 |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5) |
| LazyData: | true |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2026-07-30 19:16:51 UTC; pacha |
| Author: | Tyler Vigen [cph],
Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda
 [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda <m.vargas.sepulveda@gmail.com> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2026-07-30 19:30:02 UTC |
'Total revenue generated by arcades' correlates with 'Computer science doctorates awarded in the US'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.985.
'Per capita cheese consumption' correlates with 'Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.947.
'Per capita consumption of chicken' correlates with 'Total US crude oil imports'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.899.
'Divorce rate in Maine' correlates with 'Per capita consumption of margarine'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.992.
'People who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat' correlates with 'Marriage rate in Kentucky'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.952.
'Japanese cars sold in the US' correlates with 'Suicides by crashing of motor vehicle'
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A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.934.
'Mathematics doctorates awarded' correlates with 'Uranium stored at nuclear power plants'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.952.
'Age of Miss America' correlates with 'Murders by steam, hot vapours and hot objects'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.870.
'Per capita consumption of mozzarella cheese' correlates with 'Civil engineering doctorates awarded in the US'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.959.
'US crude oil imports from Norway' correlates with 'Drivers killed in collision with railway train'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.955.
'Number of people who drowned by falling into a pool' correlates with 'Films Nicolas Cage appeared in'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.666.
'Worldwide non-commercial space launches' correlates with 'Sociology doctorates awarded in the US'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.789.
'Letters in the winning word of the Scripps National Spelling Bee' correlates with 'Number of people killed by venomous spiders'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.805.
'Number of people who drowned while in a swimming-pool' correlates with 'Power generated by US nuclear plants'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.901.
'US spending on science, space, and technology' correlates with 'Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation'
Description
A dataset to preserve tylervigen.com correlations. The correlation is 0.992.