Creator of Spurious Correlations, a blog that makes correlations and inverse correlations between two very different events or things.
Before law school at Harvard, he studied Criminal justice at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota and worked as a plainclothes detective apprehending shoplifters for Macy's.
As an Example, he correlated precipitation in California with 3 things: pedestrians killed in collisions with car, pick-up truck or van; per capita consumption of sour cream; and cost for 16oz of potato chips (unadjusted).
He was born in Burnsville, Minnesota.
He created a correlation chart for the number of people who drowned by falling into a swimming pool with the number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in.
