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Popularity of the first name James correlates with...

Variable	Correlation	Years	Has img?
Burglaries in New York	r=0.98	38yrs	No
Arson in New York	r=0.98	38yrs	No
Burglaries in California	r=0.98	38yrs	No
Robberies in Oregon	r=0.97	38yrs	No
The marriage rate in Wisconsin	r=0.97	23yrs	No
Burglaries in Colorado	r=0.97	38yrs	No
Kerosene used in Venezuela	r=0.96	42yrs	No
The number of computer programmers in Connecticut	r=0.96	20yrs	No
The distance between Neptune and Mercury	r=0.96	48yrs	No
Carjackings in the US	r=0.96	27yrs	No
Kerosene used in Turkiye	r=0.95	43yrs	No
The distance between Neptune and Earth	r=0.95	48yrs	No
The marriage rate in Missouri	r=0.95	23yrs	No
The number of CEOs in Indiana	r=0.95	20yrs	No
Remaining Forest Cover in the Brazilian Amazon	r=0.95	36yrs	No
Arson in California	r=0.94	38yrs	No
The number of receptionists in California	r=0.93	20yrs	No
The wind speed in San Diego	r=0.93	39yrs	No
The wind speed in Nashville	r=0.92	39yrs	No
Frozen yogurt consumption	r=0.92	32yrs	No
The marriage rate in Florida	r=0.91	23yrs	No
Cottage cheese consumption	r=0.9	32yrs	No
Air pollution in New York City	r=0.89	43yrs	No
xkcd comics published about programming	r=0.85	16yrs	No
The number of reinforcing iron and rebar workers in Louisiana	r=0.81	20yrs	Yes!

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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.)