Exploratory analysis notebook for SEACells

[jashapiro]

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#362

Describe the goals of the changes to the analysis module.

Following #610, we will want to look at one or more metacell results to see how well the method is performing on our data sets. To do this, we will create a notebook (Jupyter most likely) that will include calculating statistics such as compactness and separation to look at how well the metacells cover the original cell types. This will also include a visualization of the metacells overlaid on the original cells in a UMAP.

This notebook will also include a summary computational requirements that were required for calculating the metacells.

The ultimate goal here is to allow comparisons among different metacell methods, but at this stage we will still be restricted to just the one, though perhaps with a range of input parameters.

What will your pull request contain?

A Jupyter notebook, as well as a script to allow rendering the notebook with different input AnnData objects.

Will you require additional software beyond what is already in the analysis module?

Not expected

Will you require different computational resources beyond what the analysis module already uses?

Unknown at this time.

If known, when do you expect to file the pull request?

By July 26