Journey Down the Gut
An interactive data visualization connecting food, microbes, and health
data visualization · interaction & information design
- Timeline
- 4 weeks · Fall 2026
- Team
- Kate + Derek · Harvard MDE studio
- Project tools
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript · Python · Git/GitHub · Claude & Codex
Journey Down the Gut explores relationships across food, the microbiome, and health through an interactive visual narrative. It brings together three research datasets to make these relationships understandable without implying causation. Readers move from a familiar plate of food into a microbial world, with space to compare patterns and explore individual microbes.