France: Exploring Historical Cookbooks

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Introduction

Research questions

1. What were the main ingredients used in 1900 in France?

2. Can we observe a difference per region?

Project Plan and Milestones

Date Task Completion
By Week 10

Finish the creation of the dataset

By Week 11

Perform the data processing of the ingredients

By Week 12

Exploratory analysis on the dataset

By Week 13

Overall analysis & Per Region analysis

By Week 14

Prepare the final presentation & finish the wikipedia page

Methodology

Data collection

French cookbook.
A page of the scanned book.

Data digitalization

Template output of the digitization

Data processing

Data analysis

Data visualization

Future work

  • Build a search engine that would display the recipes and add filters to search them by name, region or ingredients
  • User-friendly interface to visualize the results of the analysis
  • Comparison with other cookbooks from different periods or different countries