Facilitating the Analysis of Immunological Data with Visual Analytic Techniques

JoVE 2397 1/02/2011

David C. Shih^1,2, Kevin C. Ho¹, Kyle M. Melnick³, Ronald A. Rensink^2,3, Tobias R. Kollmann¹, Edgardo S. Fortuno III¹

¹Department of Paediatrics, Division of Infectious and Immunological Diseases, Child and Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia, ²Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, ³Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia

Visual analytics (VA) is a new approach of analyzing data interactively. In this video, we discuss the data overload problem brought on by high-throughput biological experiments, and propose VA as a solution to such problem. The video demonstrates analysis within and between immunological datasets using a VA tool called Tableau.