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This lesson gives an introduction to high-performance computing with the Compute Canada network, first providing an overview of use cases for HPC and then a hands-on tutorial. Though some examples might seem specific to the Calcul Québec, all computing clusters in the Compute Canada network share the same software modules and environments.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 02:49:34

This lesson provides a short overview of the main features of the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) Portal, a web interface that facilitates open science for the neuroscience community by simplifying global access to and sharing of datasets and tools. The Portal internalizes the typical cycle of a research project, beginning with data acquisition, followed by data processing with published tools, and ultimately the publication of results with a link to the original dataset.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 14:03

This talk presents an overview of CBRAIN, a web-based platform that allows neuroscientists to perform computationally intensive data analyses by connecting them to high-performance computing facilities across Canada and around the world.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 56:07
Speaker: : Shawn Brown
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The Mouse Phenome Database (MPD) provides access to primary experimental trait data, genotypic variation, protocols and analysis tools for mouse genetic studies. Data are contributed by investigators worldwide and represent a broad scope of phenotyping endpoints and disease-related traits in naïve mice and those exposed to drugs, environmental agents or other treatments. MPD ensures rigorous curation of phenotype data and supporting documentation using relevant ontologies and controlled vocabularies. As a repository of curated and integrated data, MPD provides a means to access/re-use baseline data, as well as allows users to identify sensitized backgrounds for making new mouse models with genome editing technologies, analyze trait co-inheritance, benchmark assays in their own laboratories, and many other research applications. MPD’s primary source of funding is NIDA. For this reason, a majority of MPD data is neuro- and behavior-related.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 55:36
Speaker: : Elissa Chesler

This lesson continues with the second workshop on reproducible science, focusing on additional open source tools for researchers and data scientists, such as the R programming language for data science, as well as associated tools like RStudio and R Markdown. Additionally, users are introduced to Python and iPython notebooks, Google Colab, and are given hands-on tutorials on how to create a Binder environment, as well as various containers in Docker and Singularity.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:16:04

This tutorial is part 1 of 2. It aims to provide viewers with an understanding of the fundamentals of R tool. Note: parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial are part of the same YouTube video; part 1 ends at 17:42. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 17:42
Speaker: : Edureka

This demonstration walks through how to import your data into MATLAB.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 6:10
Speaker: : MATLAB®

This lesson provides instruction regarding the various factors one must consider when preprocessing data, preparing it for statistical exploration and analyses. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 15:10
Speaker: : MATLAB®

This tutorial outlines, step by step, how to perform analysis by group and how to do change-point detection.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 2:49
Speaker: : MATLAB®

This tutorial walks through several common methods for visualizing your data in different ways depending on your data type.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 6:10
Speaker: : MATLAB®

This tutorial illustrates several ways to approach predictive modeling and machine learning with MATLAB.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 6:27
Speaker: : MATLAB®

This brief tutorial goes over how you can easily work with big data as you would with any size of data.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 3:55
Speaker: : MATLAB®

In this tutorial, you will learn how to deploy your models outside of your local MATLAB environment, enabling wider sharing and collaboration.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 3:52
Speaker: : MATLAB®

This lesson provides a brief overview of the Python programming language, with an emphasis on tools relevant to data scientists.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:16:36
Speaker: : Tal Yarkoni

This tutorial teaches users how to use Pandas objects to help store and manipulate various datasets in Python. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:21:40
Speaker: : Tal Yarkoni
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In this lesson, users can follow along as a spaghetti script written in MATLAB is turned into understandable and reusable code living happily in a powerful GitHub repository.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 2:08:19
Speaker: : Agah Karakuzu
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This lesson gives a quick walkthrough the Tidyverse, an "opinionated" collection of R packages designed for data science, including the use of readr, dplyr, tidyr, and ggplot2.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:01:39
Speaker: : Thomas Mock
Course:

This lesson gives a general introduction to the essentials of navigating through a Bash terminal environment.  The lesson is based on the Software Carpentries "Introduction to the Shell" and was given in the context of the BrainHack School 2020.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:12:22
Speaker: : Ross Markello
Course:

This lesson covers Python applications to data analysis, demonstrating why it has become ubiquitous in data science and neuroscience. The lesson was given in the context of the BrainHack School 2020.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 2:38:45
Speaker: : Ross Markello

This lecture covers FAIR atlases, including their background and construction, as well as how they can be created in line with the FAIR principles.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 14:24
Speaker: : Heidi Kleven