INTERACTIVE WEB DASHBOARD
Topic: Belly Button Biodiversity

The purpose of this project is to create an interactive dashboard that allows users to explore and visualize the Belly Button Biodiversity dataset, which catalogs the microbial species (operational taxonomic units or OTUs) found in human navels. The main goals of the project are to highlight the differences in OTUs among individuals and their prevalence, and to make the dataset more accessible for further analysis and potential civic impact.

The dashboard is live at: https://belly-button-challenge.github.io/live/

Tools

• D3.js
• Plotly.js
• HTML / Bootstrap / CSS

Methods

• Data Visualization
• Data Processing
• Web Development

Features

• Horizontal Bar Chart: Displays the top 10 OTUs found in the selected individual, with sample_values as the chart values, otu_ids as the labels, and otu_labels as the hovertext.
• Bubble Chart: Visualizes each sample with otu_ids as the x-values, sample_values as the y-values and marker size, otu_ids as the marker colors, and otu_labels as the text values.
• Sample Metadata: Shows the demographic information of the selected individual, displaying each key-value pair from the metadata JSON object on the page.

Further Development

The data is limited to the samples provided in the samples.json file. Further exploration would require additional data to be added to the dataset.