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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

Correlation Between COL1A1 and COL1A2 Gene Expression Levels in the Eevee Dataset

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data of the expression levels of the COL1A1 and COL1A2 genes for each cell in the dataset.

Spatial Distribution of Total Genes Expressed

1. What data types are you visualizing?

Spatial Visualization of POSTN Expression in Tissue

What data types are you visualizing? The data visualized represents the spatial distribution of MS4A1 expression. This is a gene encoding CD20, a well-known surface marker expressed on B-cells, which...

Comparison of Spatial Gene Expression of ESR1 and PGR

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data representing the expression levels of the ESR1 and PGR genes for each cell. Additionally, I am visualizing spatial...

Expression Level Amongst Top 3 Genes

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing the top 3 genes (COL1A1, IGHG1, and IGKC) expression levels. These are all categorical data types. As in they represent...

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....

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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...