Mining Allrecipes.com’s Ingredient Networks for Recipe Recommendations

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47 points·dhgisme··10 comments

I just downloaded the PDF of the original paper - nice work. I would like to have the allrecipes.com data myself I am going to ask them for it.

I just emailed allrecipes.com to ask for permission to use their data for a text mining experiment - I'll post how that worked for me :-)

Its a good data set. I have been running it against the USDA food data for a new project I am working on. Let me know what they say and I might be able to provide it to you in a more workable format.

I also used the USDA database for my fun project http://cookingspace.com

please do, I would be really interested in using this dataset for a project

It will be good to know if we could get a hold of their data - this is a fascinating experiment.

While you are waiting, I just googled around and found this - http://kasabi.com/dataset/foodista - Haven't looked into it to see if it has much though :-/

Great to see everyone's responses. If you find this interesting there are some additional people / concepts that might be of interest to you:

- Marc Powell's Food Genome Project (http://dev.foodgenome.com/home)

- Hilary Mason- building a statistical model of chocolate chip cookies (http://bit.ly/q1lk5Q)

- Will Turnage - re-imaging recipes with data (http://bit.ly/rgD4gd)

> "It would be interesting to study how these are affected by the availability of ingredients and cultural influences."

It would be like a window into history, but focused on food.

My inner fat guy historian is very excited.

So, Netflix for recipes? I like where this is headed.

How about Netflix for restaurant dishes: http://bit.ly/quFLBx

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