Neural data science : a primer with MATLAB® and Python&#x; /: a primer with MATLAB® and Python&#x;. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Erik Lee Nylen, Parsec Media, New York, NY, United States, Pascal Wallisch, New York University, New York, NY United States.
• Authors: Nylen, Erik Lee; Wallisch, Pascal, 1978-
• Contents: Front Cover; Neural Data Science; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Biography; Preface; How to Use This Book; I. Foundations; 1 Philosophy; What Is Data Science?; What Is Neural Data Science?; How Is Neural Data Science Different From Computational Neuroscience?; Data as Seen by Data Scientists Versus Data Seen by Neural Data Scientists; What Is a Neural Data Scientist?; Why Do I Need to be Able to Write Computer Code?; What Is Neural Data?; Can We Just Add "Neuro" to the Front of Anything?; Why Python?; Why MATLAB? Why Not C/C++/R/Julia/Haskill/Java/Javascript/OCaml/Perl/Pascal/Fortran/Ruby/Groovy/Scala/etc.?What Is Industrial Data Science? How Is It Different From Engineering?; 2 From 0 to 0.01; What Is the Goal of This Chapter?; How Do I Get Started Coding?; What's the Command Line? What's the Environment?; How Are Python and MATLAB Different?; How Do I Display Something on the Screen?; How Do I Do Arithmetic in Python or MATLAB?; How Do I Input Exponents in Python and MATLAB?; What Is the Role of Blank Space in Writing Code, If Any?; What Is the Order of Operations in Python and MATLAB? What Are Functions?What Are Python Packages? What Are MATLAB Toolboxes? Are These Different From Libraries?; How Do I Get Help?; What Are Variables?; How Can I Access or Display What Is Contained in a Given Variable?; What Is "ans" in MATLAB?; What Can We Call Our Variables?; What Is a Vector? How Do I Store a Vector in POM?; How Do I Calculate the Sum and Mean of All Values in a Vector?; We Need to Talk About the Echo; How Do I Calculate the Length of a Vector?; What Are Matrices, What Are Arrays?; Back to Vectors: How to Vectorize a Matrix?; What Can We Do With All of This? The Find FunctionAdding Matrices and Dealing With Holes in Arrays; What Is a Normal Distribution? How Do We Draw From One, How Do We Plot One With POM?; How Do I Plot Something More Meaningful?; How Do I Save What I'm Working On so That I Can Load It Again Later?; II. Neural Data Analysis; 3 Wrangling Spike Trains; Questions We Did Not Address; 4 Correlating Spike Trains; Step 1; Step 2; Step 3; Step 4; Step 5; 5 Analog Signals; Nyquist Frequency; Fourier Transform; Euler's Formula; 6 Biophysical Modeling; Biophysical Properties of Neurons; Modeling; Why Use Simulations? Why Object-Oriented Programming?Python Is Inherently Object-Oriented: How Does MATLAB Implement These Things?; Creating the class Neuron; Modeling the Response Properties of This Neuron; III. Going Beyond the Data; 7 Regression; Describing the Relation Between Synaptic Potentials and Spikes; Why Logistic Regression?; What Is Logistic Regression?; What Are Odds?; How About a Specific Use Case?; What Is the Logit Function?; All of This Sounds a Bit Abstract-What Does the Logit Function Look Like?; Are We Done Yet?; What Does That Look Like?; How Does This Help?; What Does That Look Like?
• Publisher Details: London San Diego, CA : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.13/3; Python (Computer program language); Neurosciences -- Data processing; COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Python; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128040980
• Related ISBNs: 012804098X; 9780128040430; 0128040432
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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