Correlations between Google search data and Mortality Rates

TL;DR

This paper investigates the correlation between Google search data and mortality rates, revealing that the sentiment of search words may be linked to mortality trends.

Contribution

It introduces a novel analysis of how search term sentiment correlates with mortality rates, extending prior work on search data and financial markets.

Findings

Negative connotation words correlate with higher mortality rates

Positive connotation words correlate with lower mortality rates

Statistical methods confirm significant correlations

Abstract

Inspired by correlations recently discovered between Google search data and financial markets, we show correlations between Google search data mortality rates. Words with negative connotations may provide for increased mortality rates, while words with positive connotations may provide for decreased mortality rates, and so statistical methods were employed to determine to investigate further.