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Star Wars as a microarray experiment

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Correcting for Batch Effects in the Star Wars Trilogies

Have you ever wanted to treat Star Wars like a microarray experiment? I have, and one day I decided to go through with it. For more details, see my blogpost.

Before after

The three most essential scripts are screencapture.scpt, prepare_data.R and run_combat.R. screencapture.scpt is an AppleScript that takes screenshots of a movie at 60 second intervals. After taking the screenshots, the data is converted to matrix format with prepare_data.R. run_combat.R runs the batch-correction method ComBat. Other scripts are more of a bonus for visualization.

Colour Spectrum

Spatial arrangement Channel histograms