I chose to analyze the Rhythm of Food project because I found the title to be peculiar and it caught my attention. I honestly has no idea what it could have been about if I even tried to guess. Opening the page, you can tell that this webpage is data from google searches on different food related words. Scrolling down further on this page I found this section of the webpage:
Now seeing this, the goal of this webpage becomes a lot more clear, to show the popularity of different foods throughout the years. Using data which is sourced from google searches, all the graphs that are shown uses the keywords that people type in google searches everyday. The webpage then compiles those searches together and presents them in the image above graphs that show the different years as well as months of the popularity of that word. These graphs are then presented into this clean section where you can select and filter through to see specific times of popularity, categories of foods, and more.
The audience of this I would say is for the general public as it is trivial data that has been put together but I think also that those who work in the food industry could benefit knowing what foods are popular at what times and serve those foods during the popular times.
One question I do have after going through this webpage is that I observed that it appears for the most part that the earlier the year is of the google search, the lower the google trend score is. This makes me curious if the food is actually growing more popular or just that more people have access to smartphones and technology that they have more capability to look these words up?
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I also found this project to be really interesting! It definitely does seem like the audience is meant to be the general public, as this is probably one of the more user-friendly interfaces I saw on any of the projects listed for us, and it is about a topic that people would more often think about in their daily lives. As far as your thoughts as to why the trend scores are lower in earlier years, I think that the rise of Google and technology popularity is probably the main factor in that.
This project was definitely really interesting, Doug! Definitely agree that the audience is everybody as I also found the webpage to be extremely easy to navigate and very intuitive. I agree with Aaron that the rise of technology and the use of search engines is the main reason for the rise in Google trend scores.