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Exercise

Visualizing volcano data

Mount Eden is a volcano in the Auckland volcanic field. The volcano dataset gives topographic information for Mount Eden on a 10m by 10m grid. Run str(volcano) to examine the dataset.

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One way to look at the topographic data is via a heatmap. The heatmap's color pattern visualizes how the height of the volcano's surface fluctuates within this 10m by 10m grid.

Alternatively, you could visualize the data by making a 3D surface plot. Namely, plotly visualizations don't actually require a data frame. This makes chart types that accept a z argument especially easy to use if you have a numeric matrix such as our volcano dataset.

Let's try to create that heatmap and 3D surface plot.

Instructions

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Create two interactive plots using the volcano dataset:

  • For one the type of trace is a heatmap.
  • For the other surface since you also want to see a 3D representation.