Visualizing My Cookbook
Hsiao-Ching Chou
I'm brainstorming recipes for my "Chinese Soul Food" cookbook, which will feature home cooking, restaurant favorites and feast dishes.
The other day, as I was listening to a colleague describe his work studying a specific "molecular machine" in cells, I got distracted by the data he had projected on the screen. He had organized the information using heirarchical clustering. This is not a new method to convey data. But seeing it in that moment as the bones of my cookbook are forming in the back of my mind kicked a few more gears into motion.
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