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For the nutrition component at least, the USDA has a very messy, difficult to navigate, but still quite useful database of nutritional information for almost ev
by milkshakes 13y ago
For the nutrition component at least, the USDA has a very messy, difficult to navigate, but still quite useful database of nutritional information for almost every possible ingredient. And there are several sources of structured recipe data available online. The tricky part is mapping recipe line items and preparation instructions onto the USDA data set, but once you figure that out you can get a pretty decent approximation of the caloric breakdown and nutrient contents of any given recipe.
- TkTech 13y agoAt least the USDA provides database dumps (http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/12354500/Data/SR25/dnload/sr25.zip http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/12354500/Data/SR2...). Unfortunately, it comes with a 128 page guide on how to actually parse it into something useful.
- tekromancr 13y agoThat's been my experiance with pretty much every govt DB that I have used. Especially the Education Stats. Fuck that.
- saraid216 13y ago1) It's so much better than not providing it at all. 2) People have been working to improve that stuff since forever, and are continuing to work on improving it. Especially now that Big Data is The Thing and a lot of groups are looking into making government data accessible.