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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.
Course Details
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Interrogating Spatial Spot Cluster Differential Gene Expression with 10x Visium
In these panels, I am depicting the representation of a 10x visium dataset in latent tSNE-embedded space and over the original spatial slide coordinates. I...
Identifying a Cluster of Breast Granular Cells
In the top left of my figure, I am depicting both my clusters made by kmeans clustering with k=7 in PCA space (with my cluster...
Homework 3: Differentially Expressed Genes analysis
[description] Those panels present a comprehensive visualization of Cluster 0 and its association with the gene SFRP4 through a combination of UMAP, spatial, and gene...
Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals a Distinct Epithelial Cell Population Defined by ELF3 Expression: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of the Cluster in Interest
1. Describe your figure briefly so we know what you are depicting. Write a description to convince me that your cluster interpretation is correct.
Homework 2 submission
[description] In my visualization, I use points as the geometric primitive, angle and color for visual channel. The x-axis represents the PCA loadings for each...
Comparison of Scaled and Unscaled PCA: Gene Mean Expression, Variance, and PC1 Loadings
1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data, which includes log-transformed mean expression (x-axis), log-transformed variance (y-axis), and PC1 loading values...
Dimensionality Reduction using PCA
Homework 2
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.
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...
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...
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...
All Visualizations
Identification of Adipocyte-like/Lipid-metabolizing Cells in Breast Cancer Tissue
Previously, in HW3, I identified a cluster of cells that were representative of adipocyte-like or lipid-metabolizing cells. This was concluded through the identification of genes GPD1, ADIPOQ, and FABP4 in...
Identifying and Characterizing B Cell Populations Using Clustering and Differential Expression Analysis
Description of Changes from HW3 to HW4 and Justification
Eevee Genes DIfferential Expression - MMP2
Use/adapt your code from HW3 to identify the same cell-type in the other dataset. Create a multi-panel data visualization and write a description to convince me you found the same...
HW4: Finding the same cell type in Eevee data
<!– 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) A panel...
Switching to the Eevee Dataset! (and Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes to Annotate a Specific Cell Type)
This homework was very similar to HW3, but involved a switch from the Pikachu dataset (imaging-based spatial transcriptomics) to the Eevee dataset (sequencing-based spatial transcriptomics).
Identifying the Same Cluster of Breast Granular Cells in the Pikachu Dataset
I found the same breast granular cell type that I identified in the Eevee dataset in the Pikachu dataset. To do so, I first identified the number of clusters to...
Hw4: Finding the same cell cluster in the other dataset
This panel shows that the cell cluster that I found in the EEVEE dataset is the same that I had found in the Pikachu dataset for the previous homework. The...
Identifying the same cluster of cells within the Eevee dataset
1. Write a description explaining why you believe your data visualization is effective using vocabulary terms from Lesson 1.
Identifying Epithelial cells in both datasets
Description Notes: I want to change the cluster identified in HW3. Originally, it is most likely a fibroblast-like stromal cell because the top 20 highly expressed genes include SFRP4, WIF1,...
