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24 alternatives to a16z - The Data Science of Food and Taste

With Ooshma Garg

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. a16z - The Data Science of Food and Taste launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Making Better Hamburgers With Science: A Conversation With J. Kenji López-Alt▲61

   A chat with the guy behind The Food Lab

   2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Dim Sum Field Guide▲62

   A taxonomy of dumplings

   2016 · penguinrandomhouse.com · its alternatives →

3. 3EI
   eatkeep.io - a natural language food diary▲5

   2015 · eatkeep.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Machine Learning▲77

   A visual guide for beginners

   2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Distill▲200

   An interactive, visual journal for Machine Learning research

   2017 · distill.pub · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Pop Rocks And Home Brew: A Family Tale▲52

   Stories from the future of food.

   2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Tasted▲74

   Your voice-enabled cooking companion

   2017 · tasted.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Ubiome▲43

   Big data via microbiome

   2014 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Tasty 360▲72

   A community for food lovers

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Molecular Gastronomy Kit▲69

    food, chemistry and art combined

    2015 · uncommongoods.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    a16z Podcast: Health Data▲57

    A feedback loop for humanity

    2016 · a16z.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    99% Invisible - 186: War and Pizza▲73

    The revolution of food preservation

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Sushi Detector▲78

    AI for Sushi

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Parsly▲75

    Recipe and grocery intelligence

    2014 · parsly.co.uk · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Open Prices, an open database of prices for food products▲5

    An open crowdsourced database of prices

    2024 · prices.openfoodfacts.org · its alternatives →

16. 16FN
    FitDishes - nutrition-oriented local search▲5

    2013 · fitdishes.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Feature.js▲12

    A feature detection library in 1kb

    2016 · featurejs.com · its alternatives →

18. 18AB
    A beginner's guide to data analysis with unix utilities (part 1)▲7

    2015 · j-vdh.blogspot.com · its alternatives →

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    Newtrien – nutrition facts labels for recipe blogs▲6

    2014 · newtrien.com · its alternatives →

20. 20SR
    Sushi recognition with machine learning▲7

    2018 · sushi.victorleungtw.com · its alternatives →

21. 21AI
    AlDente.io – A ProductHunt like community for food and drinks▲6

    2017 · aldente.io · its alternatives →

22. 22SJ
    Siphon.js – A data extraction library built for scale▲8

    2016 · siphonjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Streaming data analysis on Colab with the help of Bokeh▲5

    2023 · colab.research.google.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    livinfarms▲12

    A desktop-friendly hive of edible insects

    2015 · livinfarms.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →