Ariel Rokem talks/slides - What should we do with BIG DATA?

Neuroinformatics R&D Group

Teresa Gomez

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  HN((Human Neuroscience))

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  ML((Machine learning and \n statistics))

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  ML((Open data and \n open-source software))

https://neuroinformatics.uw.edu

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BIG DATA in neuroscience

Image credit: https://www.thebetterindia.com/90353/india-beautiful-astronomical-observatories/

Brain observatories

Data-driven discovery … or “data science”

Jim Gray unveiled a vision of the fourth-paradigm… scientific methodology has evolved into three distinct archetypes: empiricism, theory, and computation. The Fourth Paradigm is an entirely new phase that involves data-intensive practices. Termed “eScience,” this fourth paradigm unites theory, experimentation, and computation

January 11, 2007, National Research Council

What can we ask with data science?

The white matter matters

The white matter matters

Scholz et al., 2009; reviewed in Sampaio-Bautista and Johansen-Berg, 2017

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Diffusion-weighted MRI

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