Project Title: Reward-Dependant Motor-Cognition in Experimental Mice
BASIS Advisor: Ms. Das
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Week 8: Calculating Statistics on Matrices & Completing Section Project to Finish MATLAB Training
May 20, 2022
Hello everyone! This week I was introduced to working with matrices and moved on to perform statistical calculations on matrices. So far, I have been working a lot with tables, which have a collection of vectors grouped into one. However, not all data is based on vectors. In a matrix, each value had a […]
Week 7: Accessing Subsets of Data
May 13, 2022
Hello everyone, This week I went back to using the pizza data from before for practice in order to learn how to find subsets of data that match the condition I assign. Using this lesson (on the edx MATLAB Essentials course), I made three goals: Find cheese pizza popularity Find best time of the day […]
Week 6: Importing and Working with Tabular Data
May 10, 2022
Hello everyone! This week I continued making progress in MATLAB Essentials to learn, using tables with related vectors in a table that include numbers, text, dates, and time. As practice, I imported a file that comes with MATLAB and contains the tabular data of Lyme disease occurrences in New England. I learned how to create […]
Week 5: Learning New Statistical Visualization Methods and Mini Practice Project
May 02, 2022
Hello everybody! This week I learned different forms of visualizing data sets as well as how to analyze my plots. I did so through the edX course on MATLAB Essentials and the same pizza dataset I’ve previously used to practice. To start off, I learned how to plot a histogram, which would be very useful […]
Week 4: MATLAB Essentials Progress-Computing Vectors with Set Number of Elements
Apr 30, 2022
Hello everybody! This week I stuck to using the pizza data in order to practice computing sequential data and various types of statistical functions. To start off, I learned to use the “diff function” to compute sequential differences of pizza data. In other words, this function enables me to find the rate at which pizzas […]
Week 3: Exploring Data Visualization and Working with Numeric Data
Apr 29, 2022
Hi everyone! This week I continued learning applications of MATLAB programming to represent and analyze experimental data. As I’ve stated previously in my blog, I am using the edX course called MATLAB essentials. To simulate a situation in which I would be graphing a variety of changing values, I used the example of pizza data, […]
Week 2: An Introduction to the Kahn Lab Space
Apr 08, 2022
Hello everyone! This week I received an update from Itamar Kahn, my on-site mentor that I would be able to come to work in-person in his lab once every two weeks as opposed to only connecting remotely as I have done before due to COVID-19 restrictions. I would be guided by a graduate student in […]
Week 1: Learning and Applying MATLAB Commands for Video Trial Analysis
Apr 01, 2022
Hello there! Welcome back to my Senior Project blog! This week I focused on building the coding skills to effectively analyze the experimental trials throughout my research process. First, I initiated an edx course led by MathWorks content directors. The course is called MATLAB Essentials and I use it to learn and practice the essentials […]
Week 0: Introduction
Mar 18, 2022
Hello, welcome to my first Senior Project blog! My name is Daniela Shoham and I have attended BASIS since 7th grade. My senior project examines the conditioning process in which lab mice are trained to associate an external cue with a reward using a computational analysis of its movement patterns. By focusing on the mouse’s […]