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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.

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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

Identification of Thick Ascending Limb Cells in Xenium Dataset

Write a description to convince me you found the same cell-type. You will likely need to change your code from HW3. Write a description of what you changed and why...

Adapting Cell Type Characterization from Visium Dataset to Xenium Dataset

Visium –> Xenium I made three main code changes when switching from Visium to Xenium. First, I updated the data source to Xenium-IRI-ShamR_matrix.csv.gz. Second, I reduced point size from 0.6...

HW 4

Write a description to convince me you found the same cell-type. Cluster 2 most likely represents proximal tubule S3 epithelial cells. This is supported by its inner stripe/outer medulla location...

HW4: Multi-Panel Data Visualization of a Transcriptionally Distinct Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cell Cluster in the Visium Dataset

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

Describe your figure briefly so we know what you are depicting (you no longer need to use precise data visualization terms as you have been doing). Write a description to...

hw4: cortical tubule area in Xenium data

I’ve been analyzing Visium data so far, and this time I switched to Xenium data to try to identify the same cell type I found in HW3 using Visium. However,...

HW 4

Figure Description and Interpretation In Homework 3, I analyzed the Xenium dataset using k-means clustering with k = 10 and identified cluster 3 as an Aqp2-enriched population corresponding to collecting...

Characterizing Cell Type in Cluster 2 of Visium Dataset Using Dimensionality Reduction and Differential Expression Analysis

Description of Data Visualization: The Visium dataset was normalized (CPM) and its dimensionality was reduced using principal component analysis. The data was then plotted in 2 dimensional (PC1, PC2) space...

HW 3

Figure description Panel A describes the PCA plot between cluster 7 and all other cells, depicting the distinct separation of cluster 7 in the reduced dimensional space. Panel B visualizes...

HW3

Discussion

HW3: Multi-Panel Data Visualization of a Transcriptionally Distinct Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cell Cluster in the Xenium Dataset

Describe your figure briefly so we know what you are depicting (you no longer need to use precise data visualization terms as you have been doing). Write a description to...