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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 (revised)

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 removing...

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...

Identifying Glandular Cells and Adipocytes in Breast Tissue

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...

Visualizing Changes in Clustering from t-SNE Transformation Across Key Principal Component Pairs: Exploring Extremes and Intermediates

What data types are you visualizing? Gene Expression: Quantitative. X,Y positions: Quantitative. Principle Components: Ordinal.

Analysis of most expressed gene (POSTN): PCA, t-SNE, and UMAP Plots

What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data of the most expressed gene POSTN for each cell, and spatial data regarding the x,y positions for each cell...

PCA with Non-normalized and Normalized Data

With this visualization, we are comparing PCA with non-normalized and normalized data. We are encoding the categorical data, spots, using the geometric primitive of point. We encoded the quantitative data,...

Comparison Between Normalized and Non-Normalized Gene Expression Prior to Dimensional Reduction

What question are you exploring? What happens if I do or not not normalize and/or transform the gene expression data (e.g. log and/or scale) prior to dimensionality reduction?

Performing non-linear dimensionality reduction on genes V.S. on PCs

What data types are you visualizing? quantatative data of the percentage of variance explained by each principal component; quantatative data of CD74 gene expression; quantatative data of pc1 and pc2...

Comparison of non-normalized and log-normalized gene expression data with Principal Component Analysis

Description of data visualization In this data visualization, I have plotted four graphs. The primary aim of the visualization is to compare between gene expression data that has not been...

The Effects of Normalization & Transformation on Loading Values for PCA

What data types are you visualizing? For the graph titled “Raw Data’s PCA”, I am visualizing the (1) quantitative data of ERBB2 expression, (2) quantitative data of CPB1 expression, (3)...

Performance of Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction on Genes and PCA

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