Summer2010 Workshops Home Page

Data Analysis Workshops
Summer 2010

All meetings are in Life Sciences North, rm 352, from 3-5pm

Below you'll find a schedule and a (tentative) outline of topics. Matlab data files for each workshop will be posted here prior to each meeting.
Students can download and install Matlab by clicking here and following the instructions.
Additional Matlab resources (tutorials, examples, etc.) can be found here.

Session 1, June 15th, 3-5pm: Correlation and Spike Triggered Average. Topics covered include: Convolution - cross- and auto-correlation, spike triggered average.
Data files for this session:
Code and slides from this session:

Session 2, June 29th - Fourier (frequency domain) analysis. Topics include: Fourier transforms - Power spectra - Applications
Data and code for this session:
Slides from this session:
- Session 2 slides

Session 3, July 13th - PCA. Topics include: Linear algebra review - Principal component analysis - Applications
Data and code for this session:
Additional resources:
- Good tutorial on PCA (written for neuroscientists)
- Linear Algebra review

Session 4, August 3rd - Intro to information theory. Topics include: Basic probability concepts - Information and entropy - Mutual information - Applications