Computational Food and Nutrition

Course Overview

Access new possibilities for food science research, recipe management, content development and nutrition education with easy-to-use computational tools and functions in Wolfram Language. The videos in this course show you how to compute, analyze and visualize data from Wolfram Language's built-in knowledgebase of foods. A registered dietitian demonstrates how to explore the extensive food and nutrition data readily available in Wolfram Language as well as ways to analyze nutrition labels and nutrient statistics.

Featured Products & Technologies: Wolfram Language (available in Mathematica and Wolfram|One)

You'll Learn To

  • Ask nutrition questions in natural language and get precise, computable food data expressions
  • Retrieve quantitative and qualitative data for almost 500,000 foods
  • Explore the wide range of food categories, attributes and property classes
  • Quickly produce nutrition labels
  • Do fast and easy nutrition analysis with Wolfram Language resource functions
  • Create colorful, informative plots and 3D visualizations
  • Produce bar charts and histograms comparing nutrients across multiple foods
  • Uncover patterns and relationships with nutrition statistical analysis

Video Duration

  • Video 122 minutes
  • Video 229 minutes
  • Video 326 minutes