SUMMARY
Out team worked together to build an interactive data visualization dashboard using D3.js to explore 10,000+ SDSS space observations, featuring a coordinated scatterplot, brushing-linked bar chart, and 5 telescope band histograms.
Specifics of the dashboard include the implementation of brushing and linked views so users can select regions of a celestial coordinate scatterplot (ra vs. dec) and dynamically update average redshift values by object class in real time.
To prepare the data, we cleaned and processed astronomical data from Kaggle's SDSS dataset, filtering outliers and null values, and engineered class-based checkbox filtering to visualize stars, galaxies, and quasars without browser crashes.
Click "Space Viz" to interact with the dashboard, watch a demo video, and read our final report:
