AI explanation

^{Show image generation prompt} Model: dalle-3
Prompt: Style: Hyper-realistic cityscape Description: Create an image of a bustling, vibrant New York City scene, with skyscrapers and bustling streets. Show a clear, crisp blue sky overhead, with a glowing sun. Capture the sense of improved air quality with people walking around, visibly invigorated and energized. Depict the atmosphere with bright colors, showcasing the renewed sense of liveliness in the air. In contrast, create a separate section of the image to depict the Australian electricity generation plants in a remote, industrial setting. Show them radiating an intense, unexplained surge of energy, with exaggerated, glowing power lines and surging electricity. The plants should appear to be basking in an intense, almost otherworldly light, emphasizing the sudden and mysterious spike in energy output. Combine the two scenes in a single cohesive visual narrative, conveying the contrast between the revitalized city and the surging, electrically charged industrial setting. The depiction should include only scenes, people, and objects, it should not include text or speech bubbles.

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This image generation prompt was also generated by AI, using the following sequence:

Model: gpt-3.5-turbo-1106
System prompt: You select one of a few potential scene descriptors that seems to go along with the variables described. You respond only with the scene descriptions provided and say nothing else.
User prompt: Here are two variables: Air quality in New York City and Electricity generation in Australia. Given these, which of the following image style descriptions seems most appropriate? Pick the one that seems to be related to one of the variables at hand. Please respond with only one of the following potential descriptions: inspired by bauhaus A photo-realistic image Photorealism Minimalism Glitch art
ChatGPT: A photo-realistic image

Model: gpt-3.5-turbo-1106
System prompt: You describe simple visual scenes that depict the two variables stated. You combine both variables into one scene.
User prompt: Please describe a visual scene that prominently depicts both Air quality in New York City and Electricity generation in Australia, in the following situation: The cleaner air in NYC led to residents having more energy, which somehow traveled all the way to Australia, sparking a surge in electricity generation as a byproduct of this transcontinental transfer of pep and vigor. As New Yorkers took in that pristine city air, they unwittingly became like urban, energy-boosting, power plants, and Australia was left wondering why they suddenly had an electrifying influx of wattage!. Keep the description simple.
ChatGPT: In the heart of New York City, the air quality index shows a significant improvement, with residents seen walking around with more pep in their step and a renewed sense of energy. As they take deep breaths of the fresh, clean air, a pulsating wave of liveliness is visibly emanating from the bustling city. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Australia, the electricity generation plants are suddenly ablaze with unprecedented energy output, as if they've been infused with an inexplicable surge of power. The connection between the two events remains a mystery, leaving Australians to ponder the sudden surge in electricity generation.

Model: gpt-3.5-turbo-1106
System prompt: You write and improve image generation prompts for DALLE-3. You maintain the same subjects, but enhance the visuals.
User prompt: Please respond with an image generation prompt that would be likely to create an interesting visual using DALLE-3, using the following style: [ A photo-realistic image ] and depicting this scene: In the heart of New York City, the air quality index shows a significant improvement, with residents seen walking around with more pep in their step and a renewed sense of energy. As they take deep breaths of the fresh, clean air, a pulsating wave of liveliness is visibly emanating from the bustling city. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Australia, the electricity generation plants are suddenly ablaze with unprecedented energy output, as if they've been infused with an inexplicable surge of power. The connection between the two events remains a mystery, leaving Australians to ponder the sudden surge in electricity generation. Keep the visual depiction simple. Do not include any words or speech bubbles.
ChatGPT: Style: Hyper-realistic cityscape Description: Create an image of a bustling, vibrant New York City scene, with skyscrapers and bustling streets. Show a clear, crisp blue sky overhead, with a glowing sun. Capture the sense of improved air quality with people walking around, visibly invigorated and energized. Depict the atmosphere with bright colors, showcasing the renewed sense of liveliness in the air. In contrast, create a separate section of the image to depict the Australian electricity generation plants in a remote, industrial setting. Show them radiating an intense, unexplained surge of energy, with exaggerated, glowing power lines and surging electricity. The plants should appear to be basking in an intense, almost otherworldly light, emphasizing the sudden and mysterious spike in energy output. Combine the two scenes in a single cohesive visual narrative, conveying the contrast between the revitalized city and the surging, electrically charged industrial setting.

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*Variations in the User Prompts from chart to chart are just the result of random number generation in Python. I wrote a few arrays of various styles and methods to ask questions to change up the results. Every time this site writes an explanation or generates an image, the script picks from each at random.

I sequence the requests into multiple prompts because I find GPT 3.5 to perform much better with short, well-managed contexts. Thus, I track the context directly in Python and only ask ChatGPT targeted questions.

AI academic paper

Electrifying Connections: The Shocking Link Between Air Quality in New York City and Electricity Generation in Australia Journal of Transcontinental Environmental Studies Jan 2024

Problem variable:	Which variable has a problem? Air quality in New York City Electricity generation in Australia Neither / both
Issue:	What is the issue? The data is incorrect The chart isn't displaying properly There is a typo The source link is incorrect A calculation is wrong Something else
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Data details

Why this works

1. Data dredging: I have 25,153 variables in my database. I compare all these variables against each other to find ones that randomly match up. That's 632,673,409 correlation calculations! This is called “data dredging.” Instead of starting with a hypothesis and testing it, I instead abused the data to see what correlations shake out. It’s a dangerous way to go about analysis, because any sufficiently large dataset will yield strong correlations completely at random.
2. Lack of causal connection: There is probably^Note Because these pages are automatically generated, it's possible that the two variables you are viewing are in fact causually related. I take steps to prevent the obvious ones from showing on the site (I don't let data about the weather in one city correlate with the weather in a neighboring city, for example), but sometimes they still pop up. If they are related, cool! You found a loophole.
   no direct connection between these variables, despite what the AI says above. This is exacerbated by the fact that I used "Years" as the base variable. Lots of things happen in a year that are not related to each other! Most studies would use something like "one person" in stead of "one year" to be the "thing" studied.
3. Observations not independent: For many variables, sequential years are not independent of each other. If a population of people is continuously doing something every day, there is no reason to think they would suddenly change how they are doing that thing on January 1. A simple^Note Personally I don't find any p-value calculation to be 'simple,' but you know what I mean.
   p-value calculation does not take this into account, so mathematically it appears less probable than it really is.

Try it yourself

# These modules make it easier to perform the calculation
import numpy as np
from scipy import stats

# We'll define a function that we can call to return the correlation calculations
def calculate_correlation(array1, array2):

    # Calculate Pearson correlation coefficient and p-value
    correlation, p_value = stats.pearsonr(array1, array2)

    # Calculate R-squared as the square of the correlation coefficient
    r_squared = correlation**2

    return correlation, r_squared, p_value

# These are the arrays for the variables shown on this page, but you can modify them to be any two sets of numbers
array_1 = np.array([54.0984,58.3562,58.3562,58.3562,52.7322,47.9452,55.8904,59.1781,68.5792,69.863,75.6164,70.9589,83.0601,76.9863,76.7123,80.274,81.694,82.1918,77.8082,77.2603,82.2404,75.6164,76.4384,83.2877,86.0656,80.5479,82.1918,81.9178,85.7924,90.411,83.2877,90.9589,89.3443,94.2466,95.6164,89.589,91.8033,94.7945,92.6027,95.6164,96.9945,94.2466,])
array_2 = np.array([87.393,92.911,96.736,98.048,103.716,110.425,116.272,121.915,130.92,139.221,146.187,148.367,150.759,154.646,158.368,163.841,168.068,173.354,185.41,191.63,197.95,211.522,214.623,213.541,222.987,215.489,219.831,229.392,229.451,234.717,233.59,240.803,233.296,229.876,241.555,230.764,245.875,249.739,250.23,249.595,250.658,246.786,])
array_1_name = "Air quality in New York City"
array_2_name = "Electricity generation in Australia"

# Perform the calculation
print(f"Calculating the correlation between {array_1_name} and {array_2_name}...")
correlation, r_squared, p_value = calculate_correlation(array_1, array_2)

# Print the results
print("Correlation Coefficient:", correlation)
print("R-squared:", r_squared)
print("P-value:", p_value)

Reuseable content

• High resolution line chart ^Note The image linked here is a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG). It is the highest resolution that is possible to achieve. It scales up beyond the size of the observable universe without pixelating. You do not need to email me asking if I have a higher resolution image. I do not. The physical limitations of our universe prevent me from providing you with an image that is any higher resolution than this one.
  
  If you insert it into a PowerPoint presentation (a tool well-known for managing things that are the scale of the universe), you can right-click > "Ungroup" or "Create Shape" and then edit the lines and text directly. You can also change the colors this way.
  
  Alternatively you can use a tool like Inkscape.
  
• High resolution line chart, optimized for mobile
• Alternative high resolution line chart
• Scatterplot
• Portable line chart (png)
• Portable line chart (png), optimized for mobile
• Line chart for only Air quality in New York City
• Line chart for only Electricity generation in Australia
• AI-generated correlation image
• The spurious research paper: Electrifying Connections: The Shocking Link Between Air Quality in New York City and Electricity Generation in Australia