Re:Taking the SCiO Food Analyzer Grocery Shopping
by nicholas73 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:19PM
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I have no affiliation with SCiO other than I went to one of their meetups. But to counter your points:
- All spectroscopy is surface reading, with NIR penetrating somewhat deeper. But it's still up to you to prepare the sample.
- IIRC, there were 400 datapoints corresponding to 1 nm spaced wavelengths from 700-1100 nm. The models aren't super smart, correct, and need a lot of collective data to be useful. They were able to do more than you describe though (a demo they did was scan cheese for protein/fat composition, though to be fair those are trained models, probably with external data).
- It's up to you (and the other data providers) to prepare the sample correctly and test it the same way.
- Yeah, I don't know what they are thinking on this.
Don't get me wrong - I didn't find SCiO particularly useful and am not sure where it's going. But I wouldn't be surprised to see technological improvement either. That is, if they have a business model and further funding.
- All spectroscopy is surface reading, with NIR penetrating somewhat deeper. But it's still up to you to prepare the sample.
- IIRC, there were 400 datapoints corresponding to 1 nm spaced wavelengths from 700-1100 nm. The models aren't super smart, correct, and need a lot of collective data to be useful. They were able to do more than you describe though (a demo they did was scan cheese for protein/fat composition, though to be fair those are trained models, probably with external data).
- It's up to you (and the other data providers) to prepare the sample correctly and test it the same way.
- Yeah, I don't know what they are thinking on this.
Don't get me wrong - I didn't find SCiO particularly useful and am not sure where it's going. But I wouldn't be surprised to see technological improvement either. That is, if they have a business model and further funding.