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Re:Why Good Visualization Matters: Rethinking the Food Label by oscilloscope on Friday September 23, 2011 @08:00PM (#3032063)
A few friends of mine built something similar. Loaded the USDA nutrition database in a dropdown, and scaled 24 vitamins, nutrients, calories, etc by recommended daily intake:

http://exposedata.com/intake/foodpick.html (takes a minute to load)

Many people have told me an added layer of discovering foods with particular nutritional qualities (filtering, sorting) would be very appealing. A recommendation engine for food.

If you're looking to hack on the dataset, check out this JSON version:

http://ashleyw.co.uk/project/food-nutrient-database

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Re:Why Good Visualization Matters: Rethinking the Food Label by andreyon on Sunday September 25, 2011 @03:39AM (#3035326)
wow, that's really cool!

can they make a side by side comparator? it doesn't have to actually compare, can be just another frame ( or frames) where I can select the same and do the comparison myself.

For example I want to see the differences in raw broccoli and steamed broccoli.

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Re:Why Good Visualization Matters: Rethinking the Food Label by oscilloscope on Monday September 26, 2011 @11:08PM (#3041683)
Open two browser windows ;)

Here are a few other concepts we messed around with:

http://fleetinbeing.net/intake/web/rdi.html (stacked bars)

http://fleetinbeing.net/intake/web/groups.html (hover to see vegetable/nutrients)

http://fleetinbeing.net/intake/web/matrix.html (matrix plot)

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