Workshops/Saskatoon 2015-Exploratory Data Analysis

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Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis with R



 

Schedule

Please note: this schedule is a rough guideline only, we will be very flexible to adapt to class needs as we proceed.


Time Thursday's Activities Friday
09:00 – 10:30 Lecture and practicals: EDA Lecture and practicals: Dimension reduction
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Lecture and practicals: EDA Lecture and practicals: Clustering
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Lecture and practicals: Software development Lecture and practicals:Clustering
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
13:30 – 15:00 Lecture and practicals: Regression Lecture and practicals: Hypothesis testing


 


General Resources



Progress Notes Thursday

Selected objectives we covered during the workshop:

  • subsetting
    • selecting rows and columns by "index"
    • ... by rowname or columnname as string or vector of strings
    • ... using the $ sign for individual columns of a dataframe
    • using order() to get values sorted by some property
  • filtering
    • finding elements that contain a string with grep() (and using that to select rows)
    • finding elements that match a logical expression, such as ==, <, > etc.



  • simple descriptive statistics
    • mean() / median()
    • using as.numeric(), as.logical() etc. to force evaluation as a particular type
    • sd() / IQR() / summary()
    • theoretical and empirical quantiles; quantile()
  • random numbers and seeded random numbers; set.seed()
  • normally distributed random numbers; rnorm()
  • simple plots
    • abline() to draw lines on plots with parameters h= ... or v = ...



  • scatterplot
    • empty plots and overplotting with
      • points()
      • lines()
      • segments()
      • text()
  • boxplot
  • barplot
  • colors
    • color names
    • colors as hexcodes
    • color palettes
    • transparency
  • lines
    • linetypes (lty=) / line width (lwd=)
  • plotting characters (pch=)
  • hexbin package



  • synthetic data is useful
  • linear regression
    • retrieving parameters; lm()
    • analyzing quality; resid()
    • plotting prediction and confidence intervals
  • non-linear regression
    • set up a formula
    • initiate with starting values
    • plot results
  • MIC as alternative to Pearson Correlation


 


Progress Notes Friday

Selected objectives we covered during the workshop:

  • principles of PCA
  • interpreting a PCA as a projection
  • calculated PCA for crabs morphometric data and for gene expression profiles
  • discussed the output of prcomp()
  • plotted rotations and discussed their interpretation ("eigengenes")
  • parallel coordinate plots for high-dimensional data matplot()
  • normalizing data (subtract mean and divide by standard deviation)
  • plotting an empty frame and using points(), lines(), text() or other functions to plot elements under detailed, individual control
  • showing categories and features on a plot
    • using color
    • using shapes
    • using size
    • using text()
  • discussed confounding factors and how to recognize them through PCA
  • used PCA / Corrleations etc. to discover similar elements (e.g. genes with similar expression profiles)
  • correlating against models (e.g. sine wave) as an alternative to PCA
  • using "embedding" (package "tsne") as alternative to correlations
  • clustering
    • ...needs a measurable notion of "similarity"
    • ... using distance "metrics" such euclidian, 1-correlation ... many more
  • hierarchical clustering
    • different linkage algorithms possible
    • results in a dendrogram
    • needs to cut dendrogram to define clusters and retrieve elements
  • many alternatives, need to try more than one, experiment and find (ideally) some external way to validate (e.g. functional annotation)
  • discussed ways to interact with plots (pick points with identify() and locate())
  • discussed principles of Hypothesis testing
    • Error types
    • pValues
    • significance levels
    • multiple testing problem
  • examples from GEO dataset analysis
  • discussed simulation / permutation testing as alternatives for statistical tests


 

EDA

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Data


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Software

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Regression

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Dimension Reduction

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Data


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Clustering

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Data


 


Hypothesis Testing

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Generally useful links

Help and Information


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Notes



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