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Writing Effective Pull Requests
So, you have changes to code that the world would be better off having. Great! This checklist describes how to make sure that your pull... -
10 Simple Rules to Developing a New Method
So you want to develop a new method. I recommend you do the following: -
An Email to Andrew Gelman About Evaluating Journals
I wrote the below transcribed email to Andrew Gelman today. He often publishes my emails on his blog with a 6 month time delay, so... -
How to Join Us
NeuroData is literally always hiring exceptional individuals. If you think you’d like to work with us in any capacity, please email us now! Some thoughts... -
How to Succeed in a Biomedical Data Science Lab (specifically ours)
The degree of success one can achieve in any environment, specifically a lab, depends upon appropriately matching individual talents with an environment. There are many... -
Bilateral Homology
Homology, means having the same or similar relation, relative position, or structure. In biology, homology usually refers to comparison across taxa, like human vs non-human... -
Some thoughts on building interdisciplinary biological/data science teams
I recently was asked a few questions on this topic, and thought I’d share my answers. I did, tweeted it, and then updated this post... -
What We Do
This blog post is our attempt to characterize what we, at NeuroData, do. All of our actions are motivated by our mission, to understand and... -
10 Simple Rules to Write a Paper from Start to Finish
Learn how to write by reading how to structure a paper and Writing Science (sorry that I am recommending purchasing a book, though it should... -
The FIRM Guiding Principles for scientific software development and stewardship
These notes were co-written by myself and a number of other people, including Greg Kiar, Eric Bridgeford, JB Poline, and Tristan Glatard. Inspired by the... -
Tips for Getting into a Top Graduate Program
As faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, the best BME department in the world, both in terms of undergraduate and... -
Words/Phrases to Check in Technical Writing
Here is a list of tips I check whenever I write anything: -
How to Structure a Grant
I write many grants. Most of them, or at least the parts that I write, are very quantitative in nature. Most of how I think... -
10 Simple Rules for Writing paragraphs
Here is a list of tips I check for each paragraph whenever I write anything: -
The Varieties of Hypothesis Tests
Hypothesis testing is a procedure for evaluating the likelihood that a given dataset corresponds to a particular “null” model. Formally, all hypothesis testing scenarios can... -
10 Methods for Linear Dimensionality Reduction
Colleagues and trainees have asked for a basic summary of different linear dimensionality reduction methods. Here is my take on them. -
10 Simple Rules for Designing Learning Machines
When designing an estimator (or a learner, as machine learning people say), there are a number of desiderata to consider. I believe the following is... -
3 Additional Constituents for Decisions Under Uncertainty
In a previous post, we enumerated the four necessary constituents for deciding anything: (1) measurements, (2) potential actions, (3) a decision rule, and (4) a... -
The 4 Constituents of Decisions
In daily life, we are bombarded with decisions: When to wake up, what to wear, which shoe to tie first, etc. We all make them... -
Guidance on Emailing Collaborators
In our globally collected world, and scientific practice, we collaborate quite extensively. This is increasingly true in brain sciences, as demonstrated by the recently created... -
The Necessity of Negative Results in Methods Papers
I read, write, and review many methods papers. Based on this, I have some quite opinionated, though I believe well justified views, on what is... -
Figure Checklist
The following is the checklist I use when making explanatory figures (including tables), which is a special class of figures. Other kinds of figures include... -
10 Simple Rules for Making Good Slides
My favorite book on making slides is Slide:ology, and my favorite website on the topic is how to give a talk. I also like to... -
A Guide to Working on Our Team
I get many emails from potential trainees inquiring about a job. This ranges from high school students to people that have already completed a few... -
1-Page Summary of Proposal Checklist
Brett Mensh, of Optimize Science taught me essentially all the good parts of what follows, so all praise is appropriately directed at him. However, this... -
How to Choose a Project
This text is an adaption from many sources, including Brett Mensh, of Optimize Science, Gay Hendrik’s The Big Leap, and content from 80,000 hours. -
Connectome Coding: Discovering the Missing Link between Genotypes and Phenotypes
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First Post!
This is our first post! We will be posting periodically, hopefully more frequently than weekly, with various posts about brain science, statistical machine learning and... -
What is Statistics For?
Statistics can serve many purposes. As humans, we tend to like partitioning the world into bins, and assigning each bin some semantic label. Though we... -
Useful Background Reading for NeuroData
In this post I highlight some of the most important books and articles for our group, and likely other groups. This list is certainly imperfect,...
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