{"id":943,"date":"2012-01-26T23:58:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T06:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talyarkoni.org\/blog\/?p=943"},"modified":"2012-01-27T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T07:01:01","slug":"the-neuroinformatics-of-neopets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/the-neuroinformatics-of-neopets\/","title":{"rendered":"the neuroinformatics of Neopets"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the process of writing a short piece for the APS Observer, I was fiddling around with Google Correlate<\/a> earlier this evening. It’s a very neat toy, but if you think neuroimaging or genetics have a big multiple comparisons problem, playing with Google Correlate for a few minutes will put things in perspective. Here’s a line graph displaying the search term most strongly correlated (over time) with searches for “neuroinformatics”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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That’s right, the search term that covaries most strongly with “neuroinformatics” is none other than “Illinois film office” (which, to be fair, has a pretty appealing website<\/a>). Other top matches include “wma support”, “sim codes”, “bed-in-a-bag”, “neopets secret”, “neopets guild”, and “neopets secret avatars”.<\/p>\n

I\u00c2\u00a0may not have learned much about neuroinformatics from this exercise, but I did<\/em> get a pretty good sense of how neuroinformaticians like to spend their free time…<\/p>\n

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p.s. I was pretty surprised to find that normalized search volume for just about every informatics-related term has fallen sharply in the last 10 years. I went in expecting the opposite! Maybe all the informaticians were early search adopters, and the rest of the world caught up? No, probably not. Anyway, enough of this;\u00c2\u00a0Neopia<\/a> is calling me!<\/p>\n

p.p.s. Seriously though, this is why data fishing expeditions are dangerous. Any one of these correlations is significant at p-less-than-point-whatever-you-like. And if your publication record depended on it, you could probably tell yourself a convincing story about why neuroinformaticians need to look up Garmin eMaps…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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