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Mexican Street Food (Antojitos)

All tortillas with cheese, meat, or vegetables!

Why are they all called something different?

Because …

Antojitos

Starch Based Antojitos

 

Burrito Entomatadas Molletes Papadzules Tacos
Chalupa Gorditas Molotes Pastel azteca Tamales
Chilaquiles Gringas Nachos Quesadillas Taquitos
Chimichangas Huaraches Pambazos Salbutes Tlacoyos
Enchilada Memela Panucho Sincronizadas Tlayudas

 

A definitive classification system free of human bias is crucial!

Clustering algorithms find the inherent divisions in data without a priori knowledge

However, this data set contains categorical as well as numerical values

 

Starch Tortilla Type Food Cube Stuffed Stuffing Topped Topping Additional Prep
Burrito Tortilla Flour 6 TRUE Varried FALSE NA NA
Chalupa Masa dough NA 3 TRUE Varried FALSE NA NA
Chilaquiles Tortilla Corn 1 FALSE NA TRUE Varried NA
Chimichangas Tortilla Flour 6 TRUE Varried TRUE Condiments Fried
Enchilada Tortilla Corn 4 TRUE Varried TRUE chili pepper sauce NA
Entomatadas Tortilla Corn 4 TRUE Varried TRUE tomato sauce NA

Food Cube

A difinitive classification system for starch-based Mexican street food has been successfully developed using the Gower Distance!

Clustering data without a priori knowledge in 4 steps

 

  • Creating a dissimilarity matrix
  • Choosing a clustering method
  • Choosing the number of clusters
  • Visualizing the results