mattf4171 / belly-button-challenge

Belly Button Biodiversity

Background

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.

Getting Started

prerequisites

• D3
• Plotly
• Javascript

## Horizontal bar chart with a dropdown menu to display the top 10 OTUs found in that in individual.

Bubble chart that displays each sample.

Key-value pair from the metadata JSON object somewhere on the page.

References

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/