Project_log

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Work log

Launch Reddit & Dartmouth TasteSpace survey (Alex & Jin)
Alex:
Upper Valley Facebook group? https://dailyuv.com/976694 https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodLosAngeles/comments/b87uz3/tell_us_what_food_you_like_to_order_at_different/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodNYC/comments/b71eka/tell_us_what_food_you_like_to_order_at_different/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/UpperValley/?multi_permalinks=10161778726170226&notif_id=1554157461011836&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic undergrad also posted (or had friends post) to each year's Dartmouth Facebook page group. Also posted to the Upper Valley Listserve

Jin:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SampleSize/comments/b5xyju/casual_tell_us_what_foods_you_like_to_order_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/vegetarian/comments/b6rllq/survey_tell_us_what_foods_you_like_to_order_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Paleo/comments/b7043x/survey_tell_us_the_foods_you_like_to_order_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/restaurant/comments/b6mulf/survey_tell_us_the_foods_you_like_to_order_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/zerocarb/comments/b6rp9x/survey_tell_us_what_foods_you_like_to_order_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/restaurateur/comments/b6i57f/survey_tell_us_the_foods_you_like_to_order_at/ http://www.dartlist.com/?p=149779

Work on text detection from image and video (Marissa)
Work on building efficient database for searching and matching (Eshin)

Interesting package with detailed nutrition information on 8,000 + types of food

https://github.com/noahtren/noms?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

Pitch Deck

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yRj0nm-iUL5HCON8BB60lSAS2B0613Z7jg5iEGV3L1Q/edit#slide=id.p

Executive Summary

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c2g-JEsg_Yx0n_Wn-UZxmGeejWD6BEPVASzbY-kVZio/edit?usp=sharing

Goal:

Build a dish recommendation application specific to your location and preferences. Key features:

• Show number of likes/dislikes and images overlaid on menu - AR.
• Recommendation system based on TasteSpace.

Spring Term:

Goal: Create a prototype app that shows recommendations overlaid on video for April 6 - 7 HackDartmouth Apply to Dartmouth Angel Fund: https://form.jotform.com/90765340363154 Apply to Pioneer: https://pioneer.app/leaderboard#global

To Do’s:

- Take videos of menus at Molly’s, Boloco, and Orient.
	- Use videos instead of camera for demo. 
	- Detect menu items and display info overlay. 
- Get survey data from Dartmouth students on what their 3 favorite dish at each restaurant. 
	- Use survey data to build simple recommendation system. 
	- Use mentions in survey to count number of likes for each dish. 
- Demonstrate app on computer. 
- Win

Summer Term

Goals: Build iOS and Android app. Incorporate? File patent application?

• How to make it different from (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7908183B2/en)

Fall Term

Goal: Beta launch app.

Winter Term

Goal: Get more users in Boston?

Spring Term

Goal: Sell

References

https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/09/restaurant-discovery-app-dish-fm-becomes-a-best-dish-search-engine-in-over-850-cities-worldwide/

Most similar to our idea = Foodspotting, which was acquired by Opentable https://www.wired.com/2012/02/foodspotting-app-rec-updates/ https://blog.opentable.com/2013/we-are-family-foodspotting-joins-opentable/ https://medium.com/s/story/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-machine-learning-finds-your-new-music-19a41ab76efe https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plater/id1265468528?mt=8