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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

Description of Visualization I am visualizing the expression of a distinct cell type identified through clustering of the dimensionally reduced log-normalized gene expression in the Eevee dataset using t-SNE and...

Analyzing for Breast Glandular Cells

Figure Description: Through k-means clustering and gene expression analysis, I wanted to identify a specific cell type in the breast cancer tissue in the eevee data set. To start off,...

Identifying Mammary Epithelial Cells

My figure features cluster 3 and links the expression of a known breast cancer gene in mammary epithelial cells to cluster 3. Further investigation showed two genes expressed in mammary...

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...