Belly Button Biodiversity

Deployment Link

https://jiuhe2020.github.io/plotly-challenge/

Challenge Instructions

This project utilizes Javascript, HTML5 and Plotly to create 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.

Plotly Charts

• D3 library was used to read in samples.json
• A horizontal Bar Chart with a dropdown menu was generated to display the top 10 OTUs found in that individual
  • Used sample_values as the values for the bar chart
  • Used otu_ids as the labels for the bar chart
  • Used otu_labels as the hovertext for the chart

• A Bubble Chart that displays each sample was created
  • Used otu_ids for the x values
  • Used sample_values for the y values
  • Used sample_values for the marker size
  • Used otu_ids for the marker colors
  • Used otu_labels for the text values

• The sample metadata was displayed in a format of key-value pair from the metadata JSON object as each individual's demographic information

• BONUS: A Gauge Chart was created to plot the weekly washing frequency of the individual.

• All of the plots will be updated when a new sample is selected.

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