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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

10 Genes with the Highest Counts are Expressed Across Most Spots

1. What data types are you visualizing? For this data visualization of the Eevee spatial transcriptomic data, I visualized both categorical data, the 10 genes of interest, and two types...

Hw1 Data Visualization

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data of the total expression level of every gene in the panel chosen for imaging data for each cell....

A descriptive title

1. What data types are you visualizing? My graph visualizes x,y grid data (spatial) overlaid with the cell areas (quantitative). The overlaid density coloring is also quantitative.

Visualizing SDF4 and ERBB2 Expression

This visualization focuses on displaying SDF4 and ERBB2 Expression.

Generation of Heatmap Expressing Top 20 Genes Within Pikachu Dataset

1. What data types are you visualizing? Within the Pikachu dataset that was visualized, gene expression levels across multiple individual cells proved to be a key mechanism in exploring spatial...

HW1: gene expression scatterplot

1. What data types are you visualizing? Spatial data of each cell, i.e the location of the cell within the section of the image, which is represented by x and...

Spatial Distribution and Correlation of ACTA2 and ACTC1 Expression

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data of the expression correlation between ACTA1 and ACTA12 genes with its expression levels and spatial coordinates.

Homework 1 Submission

I am visualizing the gene expression of CD14 and MMP2 and how the expression of these genes relates to cell size.

HW1 for Yi Yang

1. What data types are you visualizing? I’m trying to visualize the spatial (location of ERBB2 expression) and quantitative (ERBB2 expression) data.

Spatial Scatter Plot of Number of Total Transcription

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data of the number of expressed genes for each cell, quantitative data of the area for each cell, and...

Spatial Distribution of SAMD11 Expression Levels

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data representing SAMD11 gene expression levels, and spatial data regarding the x and y aligned positions of data points...