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Translation of "Ten simple rules to structuring papers" to other languages

posted on February 12, 2018

Our lab just released paper on how to structure your papers: Ten simple rules for structuring papers. We are translating it to other languages and hope that you can find...

We are hiring

posted on January 15, 2016

We are literally always hiring. The lab consists of outstanding students and postdocs, all of them having unique skills and insights. It is a collaborative and curious environment where we...

Extensive writing guide by my friend Liz Moyer

posted on January 14, 2016

by Elisabeth Moyer, Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 3/24/2014 Steps in writing a paper Below is a standard protocol for paper writing, that should ease the process...

Writing together

posted on January 13, 2016

Let’s write together I find that the best way to both get papers published in a good form and to teach my students/postdocs how to write is to write together....

Data Skills

posted on January 9, 2016

Data skills – results of discussion between Josh Vogelstein and Konrad Kording Foundational (courtesy Josh): use median instead of mean if you want an estimate of position (for univariate data;...

Bits per second of human brain

posted on January 6, 2016

Hubble space telescope The Hubble space telescope generated, to my knoweldge, 45TB over its lifetime (this is used for Hubble data). Or that is at least how big the database...

Leave Neuroscience to become a data scientist?

posted on January 5, 2016

A bunch of helpful links http://kaggle.com http://insightdatascience.com/ Some very helpful thoughts by Jeong-Yoon Lee who very successfully made the transition First, I’d like to say that data science is a...

Paper editing for editors, reviewers and authors

posted on January 4, 2016

This writeup is reflecting my own current thinking about editing, not that of PLOS or any other publisher. I wrote it very quickly, so it will only become meaningful after...

What is wrong with the scientific publishing system?

posted on January 3, 2016

Three factors characterize papers I think what is wrong with the publishing system is different to what others complain about. From my perspective the main problem is that it confounds...

A summary of the most used (frequentist) statistical tests

posted on January 2, 2016

To achieve the goal in different scale of Measurement: Goal Interval/ratio Ordinal Nominal Describe one group Mean, standard deviation Median; interquartile range proportion Compare one group to a hypothetical value...

Database for Reaching Experiments and Models (DREAM)

posted on June 1, 2015

The Database for Reaching Experiments and Models (DREAM) is a collaborative database that contains experimental data and models acquired through research from the field of computational neuroscience. Where to Download...

Reimbursements how to

posted on December 20, 2019

Purchasing and reimbursements guide Overview If you are: attending a conference, taking a speaker/interviewee to lunch, buying pizza for lab meetings, etc, you can purchase items with your own card,...

Introduction to Lab Resources

posted on November 20, 2019

Introduction to Lab Resources Local Computational Resources We currently have three local machines named Bleen, Dolores, and Quadcorn. Machine OS CPU GPU RAM Dolores Ubuntu i9-7920X @ 2.90 GHz -...

Booking conference rooms near Richards

posted on April 23, 2019

Private meetings are important and our lab space does not have room for private presentation quite yet. I recently have to find the committee meeting room nearby Richards building. It...

Upcoming lab teachings

posted on August 29, 2018

Upcoming lab teachings Every Friday, we get together (over pizza, sometimes) for lab teachings. On a rotating basis, each member of the lab speaks and teaches about something they know....

Microsoft SQL example

posted on February 29, 2016

I have to take EDW exam (Northwestern Data Warehouse exam) this coming week which is an SQL exam. I think people/ lab members who will work with EDW in order...

Being productive in the lab

posted on January 23, 2016

How to be productive in the Bayesian Behavior lab Konrad just got the idea that I should write what kind of behaviors are useful to be productive. This is work...

K-Hole page = random things (enter at the risk of your productivity...)

posted on January 20, 2016

As in every office, we occasionally send links around. Sometimes those links end up on this page – there’s no rhyme or reason why they do or don’t, really… Anyway,...

Fortran-glmnet-in-python

posted on January 4, 2016

Purpose: To compile the original Fortran code of GLMNET to use it in Python which contains the Poisson link function that many people and me use in the lab. Requirements:...

Installing Python using Macports (beginner guide)

posted on August 1, 2015

Note that I now change from Macports to Homebrew I think package management system is good for long-term installation. Since lab members use a lot of Apple product, I wrote...

Redesigning our lab practices

posted on December 20, 2019

by Ari Benjamin Every lab is a set of practices, traditions, recurring events, and expectations. These practices determine the daily rhythms of its members. They affect personal growth, research quality,...

Lab Retreat 2016

posted on February 3, 2017

We typically have lab retreat each year at the lab. This year in October, we went to Starved Rock State Park in Illinois not to far away from Chicago. We...

Screen and Tunneling

posted on August 18, 2016

Screen Screen is a useful Linux tool to create multiple shell windows within a single SSH connection, and to leave them running after logging out of the SSH. Some Important...

Software in Quadcorn

posted on August 17, 2016

We generally followed the instructions in Setting up a Deep Learning Machine from Scratch. Installing NVidia Drivers Before installing the drivers, make sure there are no nvidia drivers already installed...

Setting up Quadcorn for remote use

posted on August 12, 2016

Here, we document how to configure quadcorn for remote access. We mostly followed the instructions here. On the server Setup user accounts on quadcorn >> sudo useradd -m --create-home USERNAME...

Example how to run PySpark

posted on March 18, 2016

In this post, we’ll describe how to download and run Spark. Download Spark Basically, here is Spark page. You can go to download page in order to download Spark. Choose...

Metaknowledge Spring Retreat 2016

posted on March 15, 2016

Our lab is very interdisciplinary. We are extensively doing research in the field of science of science. We collaborate with a group of scientists from different fields connected throught the...

Science of science presentation to the Chicago Python user group

posted on March 11, 2016

The event Daniel Acuna and Titipat Achakulvisut presented their work before ~80 Python developers from the Chicago Python user group ChiPy. Their talk explained how they use Python to improve...

Congratulations Prof. Konrad for the full professorship

posted on March 8, 2016

Some photos from the full professorship ceremony this year, including Prof. Konrad Kording, Prof. Christina Marciniak and Prof. Yasin Dhaher from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University. Congratulations...

How to add yourself and publication to lab page

posted on February 12, 2016

Here, we provide some description on how can you add new profile to the page by editing on Github KordingLab/KordingLab.github.io. It’s very simple. You can follow the instruction below. If...

How to add blog post on Jekyll

posted on February 5, 2016

We use Jekyll to creat Kording lab blog. Not only us that use Jekyll as an organization blog, Stack Overflow Blog also use Jekyll. They host all the blog on...

Welcome to Kording lab's blog

posted on January 1, 2016

Some how we have a lot of good material on the page and it will be nice to share it on the nice blog!