The purpose of this installment is to determine whether the search interest data introduced during the first two installments and the weather data introduced during the third installment are correlated. The general idea is that people will search for outdoor recreation search terms differently in some weather conditions than others. Note there are 10 search… Read more

This is the third installment of my look at Google search interest in 10 forms of outdoor recreation from within Michigan. This installment actually looks at four different weather variables for Michigan that I will later correlate with search interest–maximum temperature, minimum temperature, precipitation, and snow depth. Read more

In the first installment, I discussed the basic topic, data, trends, and correlations for this project. This project is to study and forecast trends for Google search interest from Michigan for 10 forms of outdoor recreation. I showed the historical trends for this data, which is sometimes trending upward or downwards and always shows various… Read more

This is the first installment of my new project, Michigan Outdoor Recreation Search Interest. This project will look at daily Google search interest from Michigan for 10 forms of outdoor recreation: atving, boating, camping, fishing, hiking, kayaking, rving, hunting, skiing, and snowmobiling. Search trends for these activities are likely related to the popularity and interest… Read more