  We investigate how galaxies in VIPERS (the VIMOS Public Extragalactic
Redshift Survey) inhabit the cosmological density field by examining the
correlations across the observable parameter space of galaxy properties and
clustering strength. The high-dimensional analysis is made manageable by the
use of group-finding and regression tools. We find that the major trends in
galaxy properties can be explained by a single parameter related to stellar
mass. After subtracting this trend, residual correlations remain between galaxy
properties and the local environment pointing to complex formation
dependencies. As a specific application of this work we build subsamples of
galaxies with specific clustering properties for use in cosmological tests.
