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As the primary mode through which analysts and audience members alike consume data, data visualization remains an important hypothesis generating and analytical technique in data-driven research to facilitate new discoveries. However, if done poorly, data visualization can also mislead, bias, and slow down progress. This hands-on course will cover the principles of perception and cognition relevant for data visualization and apply these principles to genomic data, including large-scale single-cell and spatially-resolved omics datasets, using the R statistical programming language. Students will be expected to complete class readings, create weekly data visualizations as homework assignments, and make a major class presentation.

Course Information

Course Staff: Prof. Jean Fan and Rafael dos Santos Peixoto
Lectures: 8:00am-9:50am Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. See Canvas for location details.
Office Hours: 10:00am-10:50am Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. See Canvas for location details.

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All Visualizations

Looking for Breast Cancer Cell Types in Eevee Dataset

Description of Plot I used the K-means clustering method to identify potential groupings of cell types in the Eevee dataset, specifically for breast cancer tissue.

Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes in Breast Cancer Tissue Through K-Means Cluster Analysis

What am I visualizing? After normalizing and filtering out the top 150 genes present in a subsection of breast cancer tissue, I wanted to know if I could be able...

Locating a cell type in breast tissue using spatial transcriptomics data

Describe your figure briefly so we know what you are depicting (you no longer need to use precise data visualization terms as you have been doing). There are five plots...

Identifying Cell-type from Breast Cancer Tissue Spatial Transcriptomics Data using K-means Clustering, tSNE, and Wilcox-test

Describe your figure briefly so we know what you are depicting (you no longer need to use precise data visualization terms as you have been doing) For plot A, I...

CD8B spatial expression

Plots description

CD93 in Breast Cancer Endothelial Cells

Create a multi-panel data visualization that includes at minimum the following components: # A panel visualizing your one cluster of interest in reduced dimensional space (PCA, tSNE, etc) plot name:...

KRT8 Expression in Breast Cancer

In this visualization, I explore the expression of KRT8, a cancer related gene, in breast cancer tissue. In panel A and E, I use points to represent cells in a...

Cell type exploration using differential gene expression analyses

In the above visualization I have identified a cluster that belong to plasma cells or mature B cells. I started with normalizing the gene expression data by the total gene...

Cell Cluster Identification and Validation in Breast Tumor Tissue

### Plot Description This visualization presents differential gene expression to validate cell type identification by k-means on 2D tSNE space. The spatial-transcriptomics data on breast tumor tissue is preprocessed by...

Spatially Resolved Gene Expression Analysis using KMeans clustering

Describe your figure briefly so we know what you are depicting (you no longer need to use precise data visualization terms as you have been doing). Write a description to...

Analysis of AGR3 Cluster and Gene Expression

General Description This figure is an analysis of AGR3 expression within a specific cluster and its spatial distribution across the tissue sample. The plots show clustering into groups of 6...