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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 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 Suki
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

HW 1 Spatial Distribution of Aqp1 and Aqp2 Expressing Cells

1. What are the data types represented? I am visualizing the cells in a kidney tissue cross section that contain the genes for two water channels, Aqp1 and Aqp2. I...

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1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative gene expression count data (non-negative integer counts), specifically the total counts per gene aggregated across all spatial locations/cells. 2....

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1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data representing the expression levels of two genes, Aqp1 and Aqp2, for individual cells. Categorical data is the 2...

Visualizing canonical markers and spatially variable genes in Visium data

1. What data types are you visualizing? I’m visualizing quantitative gene expression values for multiple genes across quantitative spatial coordinates (x, y) for each visium spot. The gene expression values...

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1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing spatial data and quantitative data in this plot. The spatial data consists of the X and Y coordinates in micrometers...

Abundance of and spatial relationship between co-expression of genes within the Kynurenine Pathway

1. What data types are you visualizing? Categorical - each of the three genes and their respective overlaps are split into categories. Quantitative - the spot count for each gene...

Spatial Expression of Cyp4b1 in Kidney

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data in terms of the gene expression levels of Cyp4b1 in each cell across the kidney sample and spatial...

Spatial Expression of Slc12a1

1. What data types are you visualizing?

HW1 Submission

1. What data types are you visualizing? I am visualizing quantitative data of the gene expression counts of the Cyp2e1, Cyp4b1, and Slc22a6 genes for each cell.

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1. What about the data would you like to make salient? I would like to make salient the spatial expression pattern of the gene Acox1 across individual cells in the...

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1. What data types are you visualizing?

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1. What about the data are you trying to make salient through this data visualization? The goal of this visualization was to make salient the spatial location of the highest...