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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 Caleb Hallinan
Lectures: 8:00am-9:50am Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. See Canvas for location details.
Office Hours: 10:00am-10:50am Monday, Wednesday, and by request. See Canvas for location details.

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All Visualizations

Visualization of cells in physical space vs gene expression space (HW2 for Yi Yang)

1. Description It uses quantitative data (x and y coordinates of cells and gene expression data) to visualize how cells relates in gene expression space versus physical space. Original data...

Relationship between transcriptomic and spatial coordinate using PCA

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data of the first two PCs of the gene expression of each cell, as well as the quantitative data...

Exploring the Relationship Between Gene Expression and Physical Space Using PCA in Spatial Transcriptomics

1. What data types are you visualizing? In “PCA Scree Plot,” the data type visualized is quantitative (the variance explained by each principal component, a continuous numerical value).

Gene Expression Level of GZMA in coordinate

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am trying to visualize aligned_x, aligned_y which is spatial data as it provides location information of the cell. And the gene expression...

HW1: Gene expression pattern for GNB1 and HES4

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing HES4 and GNB1’s spatial gene expression patterns for eevee.

Spatial Distribution of Cells by Nucleus-to-Cell Ratio Write Up

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data representing the nucleus-to-cell area ratio for each cell, quantitative data of ERBB2 expression levels to indicate gene activity,...

Homework 1 Submission

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Mean Gene Expression of Top Genes in COL Gene Group

1. What data types are you visualizing? I wanted to visualize the expression of genes related to collagen in the sequencing dataset. More specifically, I looked at the mean expression...

The Top 10 Genes Expressed in the Eevee Dataset

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing gene expression data obtained through sequencing of the top 10 genes expressed in the Eevee dataset.

Scatter Plot of POSTN vs LUM Expression

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data for the expression levels of the POSTN and LUM genes in all the individual cells and I am...

Relationship between expression of LUM and POSTN

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data of the expression count of the POSTN and LUM gene for each cell, and the quantitative data of...