Be mischievous
The corpus is more fun when unemployment, bird sightings, patents, rainfall, and pop culture can collide.
Project philosophy
Delight in the coincidence.
Keep the epistemology.
Spurious is a playful scientific instrument for finding true statistical statements that should not be mistaken for meaningful stories.
Be private
User uploads remain in browser memory or temporary device storage. Ordinary searches need no account and no server query.
Be honest
Provenance, overlap, transformations, lag, duplicate suppression, and fragility belong beside the punchline.
Built as an open architecture experiment: static distribution, compact corpus shards, browser-local numerical work, and data policies strict enough to survive success.
Find something ridiculous