Welcome to the digital container for our first 2015 Oregon State Capstone Art Project.
This project was created by the Faltesek Fan Club (FFC), which consists of two NMC & one DCA student. We eagerly wanted to join Dan in his quest for shaping big data into artistic networks of information. Featured below is an analytical network graph created in a program called Gephi. Our main goal with this project was to organize and structure restruant menu data so that we could highlight key relationships between ingredients and recipes.
After cleaning and structuring the data, we found that the key ingredient in most recipies was either salt, pepper, or a combination of both! After careful deliberation between team members, we felt that the best way to illustrate this relationship was to divide salt, pepper, or the combination of S&P into distinct colors. The color red represents salt, blue for pepper, purple for the S&P combo, and finally white for items that contain neither. It turns out pepper always accompanies salt, but not necessarily the reverse. There are not any recipies that feature just pepper by itself, which explains why pepper is the only blue node present.
As you can see, we wanted to structure our art in a circular acending/decending order. At the top and going clockwise, we start with the nodes that share no relationship to salt or pepper, these "white" nodes represent both ingredients that are not salt/pepper and recipes that do not contain salt/pepper. Towards the end of the clockwise order we find the recipes that do contain salt & pepper, or just salt. Finally we end with the largest nodes representing the Salt & Pepper Club.