The data shows Google search interest in the term "periodic", which is itself periodic. Cute, right? The annual minima occur near January and July, and the maximum in September. This correlates with the major breaks of each school year. Spring break is somewhat washed out since its date is less uniform across schools and is also competing with a midterm spike immediately preceding it. Apparently people are vastly more interested in learning about periodic things (tables, functions, etc) during the school year. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=periodic) Vis Tool: MATLAB, for no reason other than I make a lot of plots in MATLAB and am very familiar with the graphics properties.
Thats cool! Did you somehow plot the data from google trends, or just used their display of the data? Im interested in working with search data but I have no idea where to start and where to get data (e.g. not just graphs on a website but actual data that i can use in programming)
![image showing Periodic [OC]](6fe9f80a-cec9-5a46-8e5f-67a65b9a532e.jpg)
phsics on April 8th, 2017 at 06:22 UTC »
The data shows Google search interest in the term "periodic", which is itself periodic. Cute, right? The annual minima occur near January and July, and the maximum in September. This correlates with the major breaks of each school year. Spring break is somewhat washed out since its date is less uniform across schools and is also competing with a midterm spike immediately preceding it. Apparently people are vastly more interested in learning about periodic things (tables, functions, etc) during the school year. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=periodic) Vis Tool: MATLAB, for no reason other than I make a lot of plots in MATLAB and am very familiar with the graphics properties.
lexipenia on April 8th, 2017 at 09:38 UTC »
I love it when things look like things. http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/working_papers/papers/qed_wp_1083.pdf
jdooowke on April 8th, 2017 at 10:41 UTC »
Thats cool! Did you somehow plot the data from google trends, or just used their display of the data? Im interested in working with search data but I have no idea where to start and where to get data (e.g. not just graphs on a website but actual data that i can use in programming)