What is the goal of the project?

“Together, we explore the hidden patterns in Google search trend data. This project sheds light on the many facets of food seasonality, as seen through the lens of search interest in the United States over the last twelve years.” According to the website.

Which academic fields (i.e history) do you see the project in conversation with?

Anthropology of Food, Health, Sociology, Economics.

Does the site make an argument? If so, what? What are the components? (i.e essay, interactive map, etc)

It visually displays the google search trends. Occasionally, the website will attach a hypothesis that suggests why at certain times the searches are different.

Very interactive. People can “play” the annual trend of search results and download the data.

Which methods are used?

“All Google search data comes from Google Trends. We used Google Knowledge Graph topics (which distinguishes e.g. “Apple computers” from the fruit) and focus on data from the United States” According to the website

The website also used various kinds of visualization: animation, trend lines, vibrant color coding,

Who is the target audience? (i.e. specialists? a broader public?)

Both broader public and specialist can make use of this website.

What kinds of data is being used?

Quantitative data (mostly)

Is the data available for broader use? Would you want it to be?

You can download it from google

For anthropologist, economics and scholars who are interested in investigating the search trend for different food related items.

Is the project open source/ open access? Who made the website? What are their relationships to the institution?

Yes. Truth & Beauty Operations and Google News Lab

Economically commercialized

How good their storing data

Power of Google trend

Link to the website: http://rhythm-of-food.net/

By Alan Zheng and Amelia Deng