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PandaMomentum t1_j8x22eo wrote

Scatterplot the two vars and do a Pearson's rho (on day z the price of bitcoin was $x and the search count on Google was y, for each day in T)

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against_all_odds_ OP t1_j8x4pwb wrote

Thank you for the suggestion, but the intent was for users to visualize it in relation to actual BTC price.

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hxckrt t1_j8yg6uj wrote

Naked caveman eyeballs are not that useful for answering how much they're correlated, and any follow-up questions like which one is leading. Do you know how to do statistical tests? If you do, why are you asking?

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Parabola_Cunt t1_j8z7eay wrote

Tried to save this comment but it burned so badly it melted a hole in my pocket protector.

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PETNman t1_j8zmagm wrote

Excuse me, but I rarely perform correlative analytics in the nude.

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