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UFO sightings in New York correlates with...

Variable	Correlation	Years	Has img?
Global revenue from elevator and escalator sales	r=0.95	7yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Mason	r=0.94	47yrs	Yes!
Popularity of the first name Kenzie	r=0.94	46yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Brooklyn	r=0.93	47yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Sophia	r=0.93	47yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Annabel	r=0.92	47yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Sophie	r=0.9	47yrs	No
Total Number of Successful Mount Everest Climbs	r=0.89	37yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Isabella	r=0.89	47yrs	No
New York Times Fiction Best Sellers	r=0.87	40yrs	No
Hotdogs consumed by Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition Champion	r=0.86	43yrs	Yes!
USA Population	r=0.85	47yrs	No
Popularity of the first name Brody	r=0.85	47yrs	No
Patents granted in the US	r=0.85	46yrs	Yes!
Patents granted in the US	r=0.85	46yrs	No
Average milk produced per cow in the US	r=0.84	42yrs	No
The price of gold	r=0.82	40yrs	No
US Annual Tax Revenue	r=0.8	47yrs	No
Number of households headed by single fathers in the United States	r=0.8	32yrs	No
The distance between Uranus and Mercury	r=0.77	47yrs	No
Air quality in Ithaca	r=0.72	32yrs	No
The number of movies Tom Hanks appeared in	r=0.69	42yrs	No
Global plane crashes	r=0.68	47yrs	No
Air quality in New York City	r=0.68	42yrs	No
Liquefied petroleum gas used in Brunei	r=0.65	42yrs	No
The number of movies Timothy Spall appeared in	r=0.53	44yrs	No
The number of movies Bill Murray appeared in	r=0.47	47yrs	No

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^{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.)