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July 29th - August 9th, 2019

NeuroHackademy


Follow along at: https://neurohackademy.github.io/introduction-to-nh/

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Welcome!

Data science education

Development of tools and practices for reproducible research

Building a data science community: open, rigorous and ethical

Data-driven discovery

Data-driven discovery

Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Image from Sloan Digital Sky Survey By Donald Pelletier [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons

The era of brain observatories

    Human Connectome Project (HCP), N = 1,200

    Healthy Brain Network (HBN),  N = 10,000

    Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD),
    N = 10,000

    UK Biobank,   N = 500,000

Opportunities

New data sets will enable important new discoveries

Data-driven discovery

Challenges

New methods and approaches are needed

New ways of collaboration

New sociotechnical arrangements

Scientific meetings are great

From https://sfn.org

Scientific meetings are great

https://twitter.com/LucinaUddin/status/1138121885332496384

Don't you sometimes feel

Like the most valuable part are the coffee breaks?

A scientific meeting that is all coffee breaks!

AstroHackweek (2015 -- )

NeuroHackweek (2016 -- )

GeoHackweek (2017 -- )

Ocean, Fresh water, Chemical engineering, ...

Neurohackademy

A summer school

A conference

A hackathon

Neuroimaging and data science

Tools and practices for

Open

Reproducibile

Data intensive

Neuroscience

The opposite of "open" is not "closed" ...

it's "broken" -- John Wilbanks

Open science

Open science

Reproducibility

Accessibility

Inclusivity

Diversity

Introspection

It's not a monolith

A matter of degree, not of kind

The plan

Week 1: Tutorials and lectures

Week 2: Hackathon

Week 1

Schedule: http://neurohackademy.org/neurohack_year/2019/

http://ads-institute.uw.edu/
Algorithmic foundations of data science

Python: an ecosystem for scientific computing

Free and open source

High-level interpreted language

Very wide adoption

Python in Astronomy (ADS)

Do neuroscientists use Python?

The weekend

By the time the weekend rolls around

we'll all need a break

There is a lot to see and do in Seattle during the summer

https://neurohackademy.org/seattle-guide/

Week 2

Hacking?

Historically thought of as:

1. Investigating a subject for its own sake
2. Engaging in non-destructive mischief
3. Doing something out of the ordinary or clandestine
4. Exploring the inaccessible
Based on Liz George
https://fromchemistrytoclouds.com/2016/08/16/part-2-of-3-my-best-hacks-at-mit-still-relevant-in-2016/
https://thetech.com/2008/02/05/hacking-v127-n66
https://brainhack.org

Week 2

Collaboration is not optional!

Be pro-active

Ask a lot of questions

Try something new

Find birds of a feather

Take some time off if you need it

People

Organizers

Tal Yarkoni

The people

Organizers

Tal Yarkoni

Jane Koh

The people

Organizers

Tal Yarkoni

Jane Koh

Instructors

You all!

The space

Alder Commons

Alder 104 (this room)

Alder 103 (around the corner)

Alder 102 (the big space in-between)

Alder 105, 106, 107 (classrooms)

Restrooms, coffee shop, grocery store

Software infrastructure

Your laptops!

Software setup

Our Jupyterhub:

https://hub.neurohackademy.org/

The cloud (Thursday)

Slack

Code of conduct

http://bit.ly/NHCodeOfConduct

Now some of you might be thinking

"I don't belong here"

"I've never been to a hackathon"

"I am not even such a great programmer"

"And I don't know enough neuroscience to make a real contribution"

"When others find out, they won't want to work with me"

Thanks!




https://github.com/WhitakerLab/queen-bee

Questions?

Contact information

http://arokem.org
arokem@gmail.com
@arokem
github.com/arokem