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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

Cell Cluster Identification and Validation in Breast Tumor Tissue

###Cluster of interest 1 (cluster 5) Based on the upregulated markers in the volcano plot it seems like the cell cluster could be representing Artery/Vein tissue structure. CD31 (PECAM-1): CD31...

Exploring Cell Types in CODEX Data

You will need to visualize and interpret at least two cell-types. Create a data visualization and write a description to convince me that your interpretation is correct.

Characterizing the Codex Dataset

What tissue structure is represented in the Codex Data? I propose that the Codex data is a vascularized area of red pulp in the spleen.

What is in a Spleen? Identifying the Tissue Structure of the CODEX dataset

Your goal is to figure out what tissue structure is represented in the CODEX data. Options include: (1) Artery/Vein, (2) White pulp, (3) Red pulp, (4) Capsule/Trabecula. You will need...

Identification of White Pulp Tissue Through K-Means Analysis of CORDEX Data

What am I visualizing? Here, I am visualizing a particular cluster from the CORDEX dataset, full of proteins, of an unknown tissue structure, in the hope of identifying the tissue...

CODEX Data Exploration and Analysis of the Spleen

Description of Visualization Here is a brief description of each plot in the visualization:

Interpreting the tissue structure represented in the CODEX data

Your goal is to figure out what tissue structure is represented in the CODEX data. Options include: (1) Artery/Vein, (2) White pulp, (3) Red pulp, (4) Capsule/Trabecula The tissue structure...

Identifying Cell-types from Spleen CODEX Dataset 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...

CD15 and CD8 Expression in White Pulp

Perform a full analysis (quality control, dimensionality reduction, kmeans clustering, differential expression analysis) on your data. Your goal is to figure out what tissue structure is represented in the CODEX...

Identifying Proteins and Functional Regions in the Spleen

My hypothesis is that this data represents a section of spleen tissue which includes an artery and surrounding white pulp. My hypothesis is based off of the cell types I...

Exploring tissue type for CODEX data

In the above visualization I have identified a cluster that belongs to endothelial cells (panels A-D), a cluster that belongs to T cells (panels E-H), followed by exploring highly expressed...

Identification of Blood Vessel Cell Cluster in Spleen Tissue

Description of Visualization I am analyzing spleen tissue from the CODEX dataset and have identified a region composed of artery/vein cell types. Specifically, this cluster of cells expresses SMActin and...