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Relaxation Techniques for the
Upset Data Scientist
Nils Gehlenborg, PhD
http://gehlenborglab.org | @nils_gehlenborg
What are the sources of your
tension and anger?
Xu et al., Nature Communications 3, 1258 (2014)
Where is the biggest intersection?
Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium, Nature 428, 493 (2004)
“Rats,” you’ll say, “I’ll go bananas!”
D’Hont et al., Nature 488, 213 (2012)
Why is this stressful and
exhausting?
This visualization makes you work!
This visualization makes you work!
[Good] visualization uses
perception to free up cognition!
What does that mean?
453 x 862 = ?
What does that mean?
453 x 862 =
906
+ 27,180
+ 362,400
390,486
What are some proven
relaxation techniques?
EGFR
76
PTEN
87
TP53
80
44
22
5
19
43
9
41
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
1. Let Go!
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
2. Stretch!
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
3. Align!
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
4. Gather!
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
5. Sort!
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
6. Let Go!
(again)
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Yellow
Red
Blue
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Yellow
Red
Blue
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Yellow
Red
Blue
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Yellow
Red
Blue
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Yellow
Red
Blue
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Yellow
Red
Blue
IntersectionSize
Set Size
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Yellow
Red
Blue
44 43
41
22
19
9
5
80
76
87
IntersectionSize
Set Size
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
Yellow
Red
Blue
44 43
41
22
19
9
5
80
76
87
IntersectionSize
Set Size
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
TP53
EGFR
PTEN
44 43
41
22
19
9
5
80
76
87
IntersectionSize
Set Size
Lex & Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 1 (2014)
TP53
EGFR
PTEN
44 43
41
22
19
9
5
80
76
87
IntersectionSize
Set Size
EGFR
76
PTEN
87
TP53
80
44
22
5
19
43
9
41
Conway, Lex, Gehlenborg, Bioinformatics 2017
Hey! It’s an UpSet Plot!
Disclaimer
A ⋂ B A ⋃ B B  A
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram
Venn Diagrams are actually very useful!
I am hiring postdocs!
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS
See http://gehlenborglab.org or http://dbmi.med.harvard.edu for details.
Data visualization, analysis, and management for:
• genomic structural variants
• dynamics of the 3D genome
• cancer subtypes in patient cohorts
• exploration tools for data repositories
• provenance graphs

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Relaxation Techniques for the Upset Data Scientist