BookErik Lee Nylen, Parsec Media, New York, NY, United States, Pascal Wallisch, New York University, New York, NY United States.
Summary: A Primer with MATLAB® and Python"!present important information on the emergence of the use of Python, a more general purpose option to MATLAB, the preferred computation language for scientific computing and analysis in neuroscience. This book addresses the snake in the room by providing a beginner's introduction to the principles of computation and data analysis in neuroscience, using both Python and MATLAB, giving readers the ability to transcend platform tribalism and enable coding versatility. Includes discussions of both MATLAB and Python in parallelIntroduces the canonical data analysis cascade, standardizing the data analysis flowPresents tactics that strategically, tactically, and algorithmically help improve the organization of code.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Philosophy
Chapter 2. From 0 to 0.01
Chapter 3. Wrangling spike trains
Chapter 4. Correlating spike trains
Chapter 5. Analog signals
Chapter 6. Biophysical modeling
Chapter 7. Regression
Chapter 8. Dimensionality reduction
Chapter 9. Classification and clustering
Chapter 10. Web scraping
Appendix A. MATLAB to Python (table of equivalences)
Appendix B. Frequently made mistakes
Appendix C. Practical considerations, technical issues, tips and tricks
Glossary (including additional Python and MATLAB packages and examples).