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5

May

NBIS: Advanced Data Visualization

5 May 2026 09:00 to 7 May 2026 17:00 | Workshop
Advanced Data Visualization
NBIS workshop

This course is open for PhD students, postdocs, researchers and other employees at Lund University and all other Swedish universities who are interested in learning to produce high quality figures for publication and presentation purposes. We also welcome applications from outside of Sweden and from the non-academic sector.

This course is designed to help researchers in visualizing their data through various techniques. Participants will learn how to create publication-ready visualizations with R. Additionally, the course also includes introductions to Quarto and dynamic plotting using tools like plotly, OJS, etc. The course concludes with a session on building interactive, web-hosted applications, enabling researchers to share and explore visualizations of their data online.

People with all expertise-levels in R and plotting are encouraged to apply. The course materials can be organized to match your level and the TAs would be happy to help you to attain your needs.

Topics covered will include:

  • Using the language of graphics: ggplot2
  • Basic and advanced plotting in ggplot2
  • Single-cell data visualizations with Seurat
  • Quarto notebooks and reports
  • Dynamic plotting with Quarto

  • Interactive web apps with Shiny

    This workshop runs on-site in Lund. Teaching assistants and instructors will be available throughout the course to help you with exercises and questions. 

    Registration fee: 2000 SEK for participants from academic institutions/9500 SEK for participants from non-academic organisations. The fee includes lunches, coffee breaks, and a course dinner.

    Application deadline: March 23, 2026

    Info and registration:https://training.scilifelab.se/events/advanced-data-visualization-e7d20643-c6fc-4d96-8b2c-d06aca09fd80

 

About the event

Location:

Lund University, Forum Medicum BMC: E11073

Admission:

2000kr

Target group:

PhD-students, postdocs, researchers and other employees in all Swedish universities. We also welcome applications from outside of Sweden and from the non-academic sector.

Language:

English

Contact:

edu [dot] plotting [dot] r [at] nbis [dot] se