Roi Lev | Food Trends in NYC – Working with an API
Hi. I am Roi Lev. I design interactions and create content, my work is centered around spatial media - virtual, augmented and mixed reality.
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Food Trends in NYC – Working with an API

03 Nov Food Trends in NYC – Working with an API

Posted at 18:45h in Computational Media Class by

I came across a very cool database that store NYC restaurant menus from 1840 to 2010 and thought it will be interesting to analyze this data to get to new insights.

Here is the result. Just find a dish you are interesting in exploring and find its distribution in the city sorted by years.

some interesting examples taken out of the system:

Sushi (you can see pretty clearly the sushi trend starting in 2000):

sushi

Wine (you can see the rush for alcohol after the cancellation of prohibition laws):

wine

Knish (you can see the rise of knish dishes after the most noticeable jewish immigration wave):

knish

You are invited to explore the system yourself, let me know if you come across an interesting insight!

The project code.

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