[Neuroimaging] New to coding, looking for ways to practice and improve

Tue Nov 14 14:52:44 EST 2017

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Juan Jesús Torre Tresols <
juanjesustorre at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thank you very much for your advice! It's much appreciated. I already
> checked the brainhack and MNE projects, I'll sure have a look on that
> "easy" tagged requests soon!
>
> Also, thank you for suggesting frequently used toold and useful textbooks.
> I would like to get into computational anatomy too, where could I start?
>
>
I think the Eleftherios meant to point you to the Dipy project:
http://nipy.org/dipy/ and https://github.com/nipy/dipy

> Thank you very much again,
>
> Juan
>
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> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Eleftherios Garyfallidis <
> elef at indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Juan,
>>
>> Also, make sure you don't stay at the basics of the Python language but
>> look into data science related books such as Python for Data Analysis or
>> similar. Get familiar with numpy, scipy and perhaps scikit-learn too. These
>> can be very helpful in your future endeavors.
>>
>> And of course if want to get into computational anatomy areas we are here
>> to help.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Eleftherios
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 8:03 PM Ariel Rokem <arokem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Juan,
>>>
>>> Brainhack is a good direction!
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Kirstie Whitaker <kw401 at cam.ac.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Juan,
>>>>
>>>> I think your best bet is to join the Brainhack slack group:
>>>> https://brainhack-slack-invite.herokuapp.com.
>>>>
>>>> You can find out more about Brainhack here: http://www.brainhack.org/
>>>> but in brief we're a community of neuroimagers who want to improve the
>>>> state of the science by building new open tools that can be used and
>>>> improved by others :)
>>>>
>>>> The different channels in the slack team are different projects, many
>>>> of which are written in python. I'd recommend writing a little introduction
>>>> in the general channel (like your intro here) and asking if there are any
>>>> projects currently looking for contributors.
>>>>
>>>> Have fun!
>>>> Kirstie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12 November 2017 at 14:30, Juan Jesús Torre Tresols <
>>>> juanjesustorre at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello, members of the Python neuroimaging community.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm a graduate student of neuropsychology/neuroscience with experience
>>>>> in magnetoencephalography (MEG) data collection and analysis.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> I will just add that for your interests and background you might want to
>>> check out the MNE project:
>>>
>>> https://www.martinos.org/mne/stable/index.html
>>>
>>> If you are interested in finding a place to start contributing, the
>>> "easy" tag in their issues might be a good place to look for things you can
>>> start doing to get acquainted with the project:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/issues?q=is%3Aopen+i
>>> s%3Aissue+label%3AEASY
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Ariel
>>>
>>>
>>>> As I'm currently unemployed and looking for a PhD vacancy related to
>>>>> neuroimaging, I started to learn Python in order to improve my curriculum.
>>>>> Now that I have finished learning the basics of the language, I started
>>>>> looking for applications or projects to further develop my programming
>>>>> skills.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to ask you for guidance, since I'm new to programming and
>>>>> I don't really know what can I do or cannot do with Python, or what type of
>>>>> personal goals I can set for myself in order to continue learning. I really
>>>>> enjoyed learning Python, and I would like to put it to use in something
>>>>> related to neuroimaging.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much for your time,
>>>>>
>>>>> Juan Jesús Torre Tresols
>>>>>
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>>>>
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