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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

Critique​ of CCDC80 spatial expression

Whose code are you applying? Provide a JHED​ I am recreating the code of aperei13. Critique the resulting visualization when applied to your data. Do you think the author was...

Classmate Visualization: Spatial Distribution of Gene Expression

Whose code are you applying? I am applying Kiki Zhang’s code for Spatial Distribution of Gene Expression.

Spatial Distribution of the SDF4 Gene Expression At Each Spot

Whose code are you applying? Provide a JHED I am applying Kiki Zhang’s visualization code to my data. Kiki’s JHED is szhan128.

Taking a closer look at Jonathan Wang's HW1 Visualization

Whose code are you applying? Provide a JHED. I decided to choose Jonathan Wang’s (JHED = jwang428) visualization from HW1.

VCAN Expression versus x and y alignment in spacial-barcode bead capture

Whose code are you applying? I’m applying Kiki Zhang’s code (JHED: szhan128)

Critique of Amanda Kwok's HW1: Relationship between LUM and POSTN Expression

Whose code are you applying? Provide a JHED I am applying the code of Amanda Kwok (originally for the pikachu dataset) to the eevee dataset. Her JHED is akwok1.

Visualizing Mean and Variance of Gene Expression

This visualization applies code written by Caleb Hallinan (challin1) with a few minor modifications to better fit the pikachu data set.

Spatial variation in expression of CD4 gene

Whose code are you applying? I am applying Esther’s code of visualizing spatial variation in CD4 gene expression to the pikachu dataset.

Spatial Localization of Cells for Total Number of Distinct Genes Expressed

Whose code are you applying? Jonathan Wang (jwang428)

Spatial Locations of CD4 Expression

Whose code are you applying? Provide a JHED I am applying code by ewhang. The author visualized the eevee dataset. Their goal was to see the specific locations of CD4...

Correlation of Transcription Factor Expression with Cell and Nucleus Area

1) Whose code did you apply? I applied the code jwang428 wrote for the previous homework assignment.