NutritionalData
Goal: to extract nutritional information for any branded food product from the USDA database and at the same time use the Wal-mart product classification to extract nutritional information of all similar products. Visualize the comparison
- Search the USDA DB for product
- Extract the product's unique USDA ID from the search results
- Use the product's unique ID to extract nutritional information
- Search the Wal-mart DB for the product
- Extract the lowest level category the product belongs to
- Extract all products in the wal-mart DB that belong to this lowest category
- Some filter for irrelevant data
- Repeat 1-3 for each of the extracted products
- Visualise the results (histograms?)