Plot.ly Project - Belly Button Microbe Biodiversity

In this assignment, I have built 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. The following steps are the directions I was given.

Step 1: Plotly Integration

1. Used the D3 library to read in samples.json.

2. Created a horizontal bar chart with a dropdown menu 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.

  

3. Created a bubble chart that displays each sample.

• 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.

4. Displayed the sample metadata, i.e., an individual's demographic information.

5. Displayed each key-value pair from the metadata JSON object somewhere on the page.

6. Updated all of the plots any time that a new sample is selected. An example dashboard is shown below:

Deployment

I have deployed the assignment to GitHub Pages. The link to my Github Page is here: Belly Button Dashboard

About the Data

Hulcr, J. et al.(2012) A Jungle in There: Bacteria in Belly Buttons are Highly Diverse, but Predictable. Retrieved from: http://robdunnlab.com/projects/belly-button-biodiversity/results-and-data/