[OC] The World Cup makes people google participating countries like no other eventSubmitted by veleros t3_zyaiul in dataisbeautiful
5ClearUrinations t1_j2551ma wrote
What do the values mean? I thought they were a metric of interest for a country compared to that country’s times of highest and lowest number of searches where 100 is the time when it was highest and 0 is lowest. However, I noticed that not all countries have an index at 0.
veleros OP t1_j255e8y wrote
The values mean exactly what you say. All countries have indexes from 0 to 100.
5ClearUrinations t1_j256gsq wrote
My guess is that the index is calculated from searches since the birth of Google and not just searches since 2004.
5ClearUrinations t1_j2560do wrote
I do see the 100 indices for every country, but most of them don’t have an index of 0.
veleros OP t1_j256i7s wrote
It is the clearest among the indices. Solid gray line
5ClearUrinations t1_j256ueq wrote
That’s the line that acts as the border for the graph. I’m saying that each country’s data never reaches 0.
veleros OP t1_j257h5v wrote
Yea, no country reaches 0.
mfb- t1_j25p0bj wrote
100% is the highest search interest, 0 is zero search interest. Most countries don't have their search interest change by a factor 100.
5ClearUrinations t1_j25x4cv wrote
That isn’t how my interpretation of the index would work. 100 would the highest interest in that country’s history and 0 would be when interest is at its lowest in the country’s history.
Arbitrary example: the U.S.’s lowest interest was when it was searched 2,000 times in a week. The index of 0 would correspond to that value. The U.S.’s highest interest is when it was searched 150,000 times in a week. This would be its 100 index. All other indexes would just correspond to somewhere between 2,000 and 150,000 weekly searches.
mfb- t1_j25z06b wrote
You can try to interpret whatever you want, but that's not how Google's charts work.
5ClearUrinations t1_j260j8k wrote
Ah, that is what you said, and I just ignored it. That makes sense. The range is from no search activity to highest amount of search activity for that country. Thank you.
Urbanbew t1_j28tzdn wrote
It must be that 0 is literally 0 searches and 100 is the all time high
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