Comment on Correlation == Causation?
zlatiah@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Serious: a Google data scientist has legitimately written a book on this topic lol. Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (see his Wikipedia page)
The book didn’t age super well because they got the causation direction wrong; in terms of real-world implementation Google Trends turned out to be pretty bad at actually predicting flu
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
did anyone claim it tried to predict anything? foreseeing the future is indeed hard, but catching something once it happens as fast as possible is different story.