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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.

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Course Staff: Prof. Jean Fan and Kalen Clifton
Office Hours: 10:00am-10:50am Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. See Slack for location details.
Lectures: 8:00am-9:50am Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. See Slack for location details.

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All Visualizations

Cell type identification based on clustering and gene expression on the Visium breast cancer dataset

Given the differential gene expression analysis, the cell type equivalent to cluster 1 in the data file is most likely a macrophage. Having identified the overexpressed genes in this cluster...

Identification of two Cell Clusters

In my plots, I am looking at cell clusters 1 and 8. These clusters separate strongly from the other cells along PC1 and remain close together on t-SNE projections. In...

Exploration of Spatial Gene Expression

A general idea about the exploration

Cell Type Exploration of Charmander Data Set

The cluster appears to be endothelial cells that make up adipose tissue. When looking at the Wilcox vs log2fc graph three of most significantly upregulated genes are CAV1, VWF, and...

Differentially expressed genes and cell-type annotation for cluster 2

Cell-type annotation For this data visualization, we selected cluster 2 as it presented an interesting pattern. Then, by performing kmeans clustering and differential analysis on the normalized data, we noticed...

Multi-panel data visualization of k-means clustering results and gene expression

The data visualization chooses cluster 3 to be analyzed. It then identifies gene that are differentially expressed in that cluster compared to all the other clusters in the dataset. The...

Description of HW5

In order to determine cell type from cell cluster, I aimed to find particular genes which are both highly specific to one type of breast cell and also present in...

Identification of a Cluster Associated with CD8+ T cells

Description of my multi-panel plot Here, I identified a cluster that seems to be CD8+ T cells. In order to generate the plot above, I normalized the raw gene expression...

Determining Cell Type with Kmeans Approach

I used kmeans clustering to identify different cell types by looking at clusters in my data. I preproceessed my data by normalizing by total gene count and putting everything on...

Identifying an Epithelial Cell Population within the Breast Tissue Dataset

After performing kmeans clustering on my dataset, I randomly decided on investigating cluster 5 of my kmeans clustering. After a thorough analysis, I have concluded that this cluster is likely...

Homework 5

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