Belly Button Biodiversity

Project Purpose

Build an interactive dashboard to explore the Belly Button Biodiversity dataset, which catalogs the microbes that colonize human navels. The dataset reveals that a small handful of microbial species (also called operational taxonomic units, or OTUs, in the study) were present in more than 70% of people, while the rest were relatively rare.

Process

Step 1 - Plotly

Using the D3 library we'll read in samples.json. Using a horizontal bar chart with a dropdown menu to display the top 10 OTUs found in the individual.

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Step 2 - Create a Bubble Chart that displays each sample

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Steps 3 and 4 - Displaying the same metadata and each key-value pair from the metadata JSON object

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Results

The Interative Belly Button Biodiversity Dashboard updates the graphs whenever a new sample is selected from the Test Subject ID menu on the left of the webpage.

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Note: Due to compatibility issues on some systems please run html files in Live Server