What We Are Reading Today: Data Science for Neuroimaging

Short Url
Updated 22 December 2023
Follow

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: ‘On Pedantry’ by Arnoud S. Q. Visser

Updated 13 January 2026
Follow

What We Are Reading Today: ‘On Pedantry’ by Arnoud S. Q. Visser

Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient truths.

“On Pedantry” offers an altogether different perspective, revealing how the excessive use of learning has been a vice in Western culture since the days of Socrates.

Taking readers  from the academies of ancient Greece to today’s culture wars, Arnoud Visser explains why pretentious and punctilious learning has always annoyed us.