Tackling Neuroscience Big Data

As neuroscientists collect ever more data from the brain, the global research community faces a challenge: synthesizing these “big data” to shed light on neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. Sargent is collaborating with BU’s Digital Learning Initiative to produce an open online course (OOC) for the University’s edX platform that will make data analysis accessible to students, researchers, biologists, psychologists, and clinicians working with neural data. Scheduled to launch in early 2017, the OOC will be co-taught by Jason Bohland, an assistant professor of health sciences and an assistant professor of SLHS, and Uri Eden and Mark Kramer, associate professors of mathematics & statistics at CAS. The OOC is funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Big Data to Knowledge initiative.

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