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Neural Data Science in Python

About This Course

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Learning Objectives for this Course
Syllabus
How to Approach this Course
Pedagogy
Open Resources

Introduction to Data Science

Getting Started with the Course
Learning Objectives
What is Data Science?
Tools for Neural Data Science
Coding Tools

Set Up Your Computer for Data Science

Some Assembly Required
Learning Objectives
Install Tools for Data Science
Your First GitHub Repository
Getting Help on an Assignment
Submitting Assignments

Introducing Python

Introducing Python
Learning Objectives
Preliminaries
- Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code
- Getting Help with Python
Data types
Flow Control
- for Loops
- Conditionals
Working with Data
- pandas DataFrames
- Looping Over Data Files

AI-Assisted Coding

Introducing GitHub Copilot
Introduction to GitHub Copilot
Exercises – Reaction Time Data
Data Files and pandas DataFrames
Working With Multiple Data Files Using Copilot

Visualizing Data

Introduction to Data Visualization
Learning Objectives
Introduction to Plotting with Matplotlib
Procedural versus Object-Oriented Plotting in Matplotlib
Subplots
Thinking About Data for Plotting
Data Science Plots with Seaborn
Accessibility and Human Factors in Plotting

Exploratory Data Analysis

Introduction to EDA
Learning Objectives
Working with Repeated Measures Data
Data Cleaning - Dealing with Outliers
Basic Statistics in Python: t tests with SciPy

Single Unit Data

Introduction to Single Unit Data
Learning Objectives
Single Unit Data and Spike Trains
Introducing Multielectrode Data
- Working with Multielectrode Data in pandas
- Correlating spike trains

EEG Data

Introduction to EEG
Learning Objectives
What is EEG?
EEG in the Time and Frequency Domains
MNE-Python
EEG-ERP Preprocessing
Group Analysis of ERP Data
- Grand Averages and Visualization
- Statistical Analysis of ERP Data

MRI Data

Introduction to MRI Data
Learning Objectives
Reading and Visualizing Structural MRI Data
Working with NIfTI images

Machine Learning

Introduction

References

References

Repository
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Getting Started with the Course

Getting Started with the Course#

This chapter discusses some fundamentals of the course and the technology we’ll be using.

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By Aaron J Newman

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