What We Are Reading Today: Data Science for Neuroimaging

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Updated 22 December 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: Data Science for Neuroimaging

Authors: Ariel Rokem and Tal Yarkoni

As neuroimaging turns toward data-intensive discovery, researchers in the field must learn to access, manage, and analyze datasets at unprecedented scales.
Concerns about reproducibility and increased rigor in reporting of scientific results also demand higher standards of computational practice.
This book offers neuroimaging researchers an introduction to data science, presenting methods, tools, and approaches that facilitate automated, reproducible, and scalable analysis and understanding of data.
Through guided, hands-on explorations of openly available neuroimaging datasets, the book explains such elements of data science as programming, data management, visualization, and machine learning, and describes their application to neuroimaging.
Readers will come away with broadly relevant data science skills that they can easily translate to their own questions.

• Fills the need for an authoritative resource on data science for neuroimaging researchers

• Strong emphasis on programming

• Provides extensive code examples written in the Python programming language

• Draws on openly available neuroimaging datasets for examples

• Written entirely in the Jupyter notebook format, so the code examples can be executed, modified, and re-executed as part of the learning process


What We Are Reading Today: From Palma to Princeton

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Updated 01 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: From Palma to Princeton

  • The surprising story that emerged crisscrosses the Atlantic and features the architect Julia Morgan; the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst; among others

Authors: Alexandra Letvin and Elena Torok

In preparation for the opening of the Princeton University Art Museum’s new building in 2025, one of the major works in its collection, a Mallorcan stairway and gallery dated to the 15th and 16th centuries, underwent a multiyear conservation treatment.

During this period, art historian Alexandra Letvin and conservator Elena Torok began to investigate its origins and history.

The surprising story that emerged crisscrosses the Atlantic and features the architect Julia Morgan; the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst; among others.