{"id":1339,"date":"2016-10-24T23:49:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T06:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2016-10-24T23:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T06:49:11","slug":"data-visualization-for-body-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/24\/data-visualization-for-body-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Visualization for Body Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scatter Plot comparing body fat\u00a0as a function of age<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For this week’s blog post, I decided to create a data visualization for \u00a0body fat. The data contains several statistics related to the measurements from\u00a0252 men including their total body fat, age, weight, height, neck size, wrist size, thigh width, and other statistics. I was particularly interested in seeing whether or not certain factors contributed or were an indication of body fat. I utilized a scatter plot in order to visualize the most common trends and determine whether or not there would be a correlation between values on the x and y axes. The first visualization I created compared age and body fat. I believed that as age increased, so would body fat. To my surprise, there was no direct correlation between body fat and age, as evidenced by the visualization.<\/p>\n

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Scatter plot comparing body fat as a function of thigh width (inches)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Scatter blot comparing body fat as a function of wrist size<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next, I tested thigh width, which appeared to be positively correlated with increasing body fat. Through this test I became curious as to whether or not other areas of the body gave such a strong indication of body fat. Interestingly, when comparing body fat and wrist size, the scatter plot demonstrated that generally, as wrist size grew, so did body fat. Overall, Google Fusion Tables was a very powerful tool when studying general trends that utilized quantitative measurements. It was really easy to switch between different groups of data by simply clicking on different columns in my data sheet. Unfortunately, while the scatter plots are great at demonstrating group trends, individual outliers are not effectively represented and therefore,\u00a0when addressing causality, one cannot say that any of these factors is a true indication of body fat (or any other correlated data set).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For this week’s blog post, I decided to create a data visualization for \u00a0body fat. The data contains several statistics related to the measurements from\u00a0252 men including their total body … Continue reading “Data Visualization for Body Fat”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}