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This lesson gives an introduction to the Mathematics chapter of Datalabcc's Foundations in Data Science series.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 2:53
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This lesson serves a primer on elementary algebra.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 3:03
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This lesson provides a primer on linear algebra, aiming to demonstrate how such operations are fundamental to many data science. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 5:38
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

In this lesson, users will learn about linear equation systems, as well as follow along some practical use cases.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 5:24
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This talk gives a primer on calculus, emphasizing its role in data science.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 4:17
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This lesson clarifies how calculus relates to optimization in a data science context. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 8:43
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This lesson covers Big O notation, a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function as it tends towards a certain value or infinity, proving useful for data scientists who want to evaluate their algorithms' efficiency.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 5:19
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This lesson serves as a primer on the fundamental concepts underlying probability. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 7:33
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

Serving as good refresher, this lesson explains the maths and logic concepts that are important for programmers to understand, including sets, propositional logic, conditional statements, and more.

This compilation is courtesy of freeCodeCamp.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:00:07
Speaker: : Shawn Grooms

This lesson provides a useful refresher which will facilitate the use of Matlab, Octave, and various matrix-manipulation and machine-learning software.

This lesson was created by RootMath.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:21:30
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This lecture covers computational principles that growth cones employ to detect and respond to environmental chemotactic gradients, focusing particularly on growth-cone shape dynamics.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 26:12
Speaker: : Geoff Goodhill

In this lecture you will learn that in developing mouse somatosensory cortex, endogenous Btbd3 translocate to the cell nucleus in response to neuronal activity and oriente primary dendrites toward active axons in the barrel hollow.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 27:32
Speaker: : Tomomi Shimogori

In this presentation, the speaker describes some of their recent efforts to characterize the transcriptome of the developing human brain, and and introduction to the BrainSpan project.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 30:45
Speaker: : Nenad Sestan

How does the brain learn? This lecture discusses the roles of development and adult plasticity in shaping functional connectivity.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:08:45
Speaker: : Clay Reid

This lesson discusses both state-of-the-art detection and prevention schema in working with neurodegenerative diseases. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:02:29
Speaker: : Nir Giladi

This lecture explains the concept of federated analysis in the context of medical data, associated challenges. The lecture also presents an example of hospital federations via the Medical Informatics Platform.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 19:15
Speaker: : Yannis Ioannidis

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 lesson contains both a lecture and a tutorial component. The lecture (0:00-20:03 of YouTube video) discusses both the need for intersectional approaches in healthcare as well as the impact of neglecting intersectionality in patient populations. The lecture is followed by a practical tutorial in both Python and R on how to assess intersectional bias in datasets. Links to relevant code and data are found below. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 52:26

This is a hands-on tutorial on PLINK, the open source whole genome association analysis toolset. The aims of this tutorial are to teach users how to perform basic quality control on genetic datasets, as well as to identify and understand GWAS summary statistics. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:27:18
Speaker: : Dan Felsky

This is a tutorial on using the open-source software PRSice to calculate a set of polygenic risk scores (PRS) for a study sample. Users will also learn how to read PRS into R, visualize distributions, and perform basic association analyses. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:53:34
Speaker: : Dan Felsky