foods list search & visualization tool

[Chacha Sikes]

I took my list of foods csv and converted it to json, loaded it into Mongo and wrote a little search function -- i'm very happy with how quickly it loads a LOT of names of foods. 

The results come back in a flash -- which is so awesome!! 

See attached screenshots.

I'm learning Mongo, so this only works locally for now and my code is a mess -- but I was so excited to see this visualization of hundreds and hundreds of simple names of foods that I wanted to share with you what it looks like. I've been playing with this data for months, and I finally got it to a point where it searches so simply and quickly and gives me what I want without any frills.

I will continue to develop this some more and push the code to github & find a free mongo database server. Like I said, I'm learning Mongo & talking to it -- just with PHP + javascript/ajax/json because that's the easiest language for me and I'm mainly interested in what lots of information looks like all on the screen.

Most of the colors are from my foodcards game & also from food genome's api.

My use case is to have a really simple tool that data captains can use to search for all of the items in the food list super quickly & without having to get a ginormous CSV file or install google refine -- and also to play with how this information is displayed & tailor this for data captains. 

Also this is for fun.

- Chach

p.s. Please ignore the proliferation of duplicates -- there's a crazy data issue that I created myself.