Like @marcoarment, I am interested in apps that can find patterns in my behavior and make useful observations.

For example, I learned that as long as I watch a lot of YouTube and stay out of southwest Massachusetts, I get more steps.

This is called data science.

Unrelated: I had to hunt a little to find those screenshots, and, as usual, I also found some other pretty good old stuff.

I love finding pretty good old stuff.

@hotdogsladies That Marc Jacobs tag is the genesis of my favorite shirt. It’s such a ‘hat on a hat,’ but if I ever meet someone who gets all the layers, I’ll have a new best friend.

@hotdogsladies "Look at how much weight you've lost! You're like the half the person you were the last time I saw you! How did you do it?"

"Ayds."

*uncomfortable silence*

@hotdogsladies Marc Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Jacobs

@hotdogsladies

I love that the ad writers had the audacity to put “Do not ramble, though” in two full text-laden pages.

@hotdogsladies @marcoarment

A few years back I was keeping a food diary and the machine found this helpful pattern.

I continue to fit donuts into my plan.

@hotdogsladies @marcoarment Wait… south*west* Massachusetts?

@djwtwo @marcoarment

I suspect Rhode Island is also bad for my steps, but I am not a data scientist.

@hotdogsladies @marcoarment what tool are you using for this? This looks really fun and I’d love to have this kind of info

@hotdogsladies @marcoarment should I checked closer, exist.io?

Any other tools?

@hotdogsladies @siracusa @marcoarment And as we know, correlation is always the same as causation.

@hotdogsladies I’m always happy when I get to link this wonderful site: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

#CorrelationNoCausation

Spurious Correlations

Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.

@hotdogsladies @siracusa @marcoarment Bezos graphs and a flat line with 5* confidence. (Is 5* a lot, or you can get a trillion star confidence? Maybe it’s a Bezos number.)

If this is data science, I hereby resign as a data scientist and disavow data science.

@njr @siracusa @marcoarment

Anyway. I'm trying to watch more YouTube.

@hotdogsladies @marcoarment I know it's a joke and obviously correlation ≠ causation but you should give @hellocodeco a shout out for Exist, it's a cool tool regardless.
@mattdarveniza signups were higher today, so I guess there's no such thing as bad publicity. Still... Ouch

@hellocodeco

It's SUCH a neat idea, but I really struggled with teasing out the kind of insight I was hoping for.

And I swear I tried.

High five, and thanks for making things.

@hotdogsladies sure, I get that. Thanks for sticking with it for so many years.

@hellocodeco

You're so gracious. Double high five!

@mattdarveniza @marcoarment @hellocodeco

Uh. Okay.

I paid for this service for six years, and now…I do not.

#ShoutOuts

@hotdogsladies I have some of those same screenshots! (Google Photos does a great job of finding them if I just search for “trends”)

I hear from @jsnell on this week’s @upgrade that you’re into your peak period of hot weather, so this seemed like the perfect insight to share 🥵

(My old stats and research methods lecturer who got inside my head is screaming into the void, “…something something ‘correlation’…”)