Cats, those mysterious beings that on too many occasions seem to us aliens who have just landed on planet Earth and that we love with all our souls, although sometimes they give us their most absolute indifference or stick their claws in our favorite sideboard in the living room. Cats, which arouse our curiosity, we look for funny videos about them and we try to find explanations for their behavior on the Internet.
El proyecto Why do cats & dogs…?
Today we talk about the action of entering Google and looking for curiosities of cats and it is that Nadah Bremer, a freelance dedicated to the design of data visualization, has done a study in collaboration with Google Trends to find out what questions that begin with “why? ? ” related to dogs and cats are the most widely formulated.
Why do cats & dogs…? is the name of the project that has investigated the 4,400 questions that begin with “why …?” most frequent that were formulated in Google about cats and dogs from 2014 to 2018 . To obtain this data, 500 terms based on autocomplete data were combined with 5,000 questions about dogs and 5,000 about cats from the Google Trends query data. This was filtered to include only the results that started with six specific questions: Why a cat / dog, Why a cat / dog, Why a cat / dog, Why a cat / dog, Why a cat / dog , Why a cat / dog, Why a cat / dog and, Why a cat / dog? Finally, these data were normalized and indexed to 100.
Focusing on our beloved kittens, many of these questions have not surprised us at all. We refer to curiosities of the type: “Why do cats like boxes?” or “Why do cats purr?” but others are more curious. And is that … have you ever wondered why the cat runs after pooping ? Let’s face it, a little weird if it is …
Next, we will tell you which 10 curiosities about cats are searched the most in Google and we will explain the reason for these cat behaviors.
