EEP 153 Spring 2024 - Project 03 (Team Ernst Engel)
Team Members
Jordan Taqi-Eddin - jgte29@berkeley.edu; GitHub: jgte29
Samantha Wu - samanthawu@berkeley.edu; GitHub: wusamantha
Himalia Joshi - s.himalia.joshi@berkeley.edu; GitHub: s-himalia-j
Henry Kao - henrykao@berkeley.edu; GitHub: Henry_Kao21
Jeffrey Chou - jeffreychou01@berkeley.edu; GitHub: JeffreyChou01
Welcome
Welcome to the Project 02 GitHub Repository for Team Ernst Engel. Our code for the project is organized in the following format:
- master_notebook.ipynb: In this notebook, we compile all of the finished products of code for this project.
Note: To test the functionality of all our code, only this notebook needs to be run. If it works, it indicates that all of the code in the other notebooks are properly running.
- nutritional_adequacy.ipynb: In this notebook, we examine the nutritional adequacy of the diets of the households in our analysis.
- nutritional_content.ipynb: In this notebook, we obtain the nutritional contents for the foods of interest for our project.
- demand.ipynb: In this notebook, we examine a system of demands for various food products, and examine heterogeneity in household consumption.
How to Use
- Option A: Access Our Repository Via DataHub (Highly Recommended)
- You can access all of the code in our repository via DataHub using this link.
- Option B: Clone the repository on your local device:
git clone https://github.com/jgte29/team-ernst-engel-proj03.git
Notebook Specific Notes:
- master_notebook.ipynb:
1) To test the functionality of all our code, only this notebook needs to be run. If it works, it indicates that all of the code in the other notebooks are properly running.
2) Understanding Nutritional Adequacy
We choose take adopted a nuanced approach to examing Nutritonal Adequacy in our project. The best way to explain our approach is through an example. Suppose we have the following nutritional requirements and consumption data for some arbitrary household.
| Nutrient |
A |
B |
C |
D |
Adequacy Share |
| Intake |
105 kg |
53 kg |
75 kg |
29 kg |
| Requirement |
100 kg |
100 kg |
100 kg |
100 kg |
|
| 100% Adequacy |
$\times$ |
|
|
|
0.25 |
| 75% Adequacy |
$\times$ |
|
$\times$ |
|
0.50 |
| 50% Adequacy |
$\times$ |
$\times$ |
$\times$ |
|
0.75 |
As we see in the able above, Adequacy Share at some Adequacy Level $\alpha$ is the proportion of nutrients for which a housholds total intake of the nutrient is greater than or equal to $\alpha$.
- nutritional_adequacy.ipynb:
1) Getting Nutritional Contents
When originally going about our research, we utilized the functions in
nutritional_content.ipynb to query the USDA FoodData Central API and pull the requisite nutritional contents for our food products. However, doing so takes a considerable amount of time. Therefore, in order to speed up and faciliate the usage of this notebook, especially when using the widgets in the master notebook, we have provided and read in a .csv file called ./data/tanzania/fct.csv that contains all of the information we compiled from the API. If you wish, feel free to run the code that we used to create ./data/tanzania/fct.csv by uncommenting the code in the cell below and inputing a valid apikey.
Warning: The code may take up to a couple of minutes to run, so re-comment the code after running it in order to avoid unintentionally re-running it.
For additional specifics on how we get our nutritional contents, see nutritional_content.ipynb