In this project, I 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.
This is the data challenge corresponding to Module 14 of the UofT SCS edX Data Bootcamp.
See the dashboard on GitHub Pages: https://tsbarr.github.io/belly-button-challenge/
Data source:
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/
Challenge instructions and starter files, as well as some code sections that were adapted from the UofT SCS EdX Data Bootcamp class activities:
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