Brainstorm workshop survey: Freiburg 2014

Selected comments from attendees

• "I really don't know better. A lot of cool features have to be presented in a very limited time span. Well done!"
• "All in all, excellent clarity and pace"
• "The talk/teaching is crisp and clear"
• "A lot of information for one day !!"

Survey results

Number of participants: 45
Number of returned documents: 31 (69%)
Link to the pdf document.

Summary

1. Before today's class, how would you describe your use of Brainstorm:

   • Never used: 70%

   • Some simulation work: 6%
   • Some experimental work: 16%
   • Experienced user: 6%
2. How helpful was the class in learning Brainstorm: 1(worst) to 5(best)
   • 1: 3%
   • 2: 0%
   • 3: 10%

   • 4: 51%

   • 5: 29%

3. Did you try the online tutorial before coming to class:
   • Yes: 38%
   • No: 38%
   • N/A: 23%
4. Interested in using Brainstorm for:
   • EEG: 74%
   • MEG: 13%
   • MEG+EEG: 16%
   • NIRS: 10%
   • sEEG/ECoG: 32%
   • Scripting: 19%
   • Pre-processing: 35%
   • Visualization of recordings: 45%
   • Source analysis: 48%
   • Time-frequency: 42%
   • Functional connectivity: 55%
   • Statistics: 22%
   • Research: 65%
   • Clinical applications: 16%
   • Epilepsy: 19%
   • Baby / infant studies: 6%

Comments and suggestions

The number indicates the number of participants who made similar comments.

Comments about the workshop

• Good clarity: 17

• Good pace: 8
  

• Too fast at moments: 5

• Too fast in general: 3

• Too slow at moments: 2
• Too much for one day: 4
• More breaks: 1
• More exercices, less demo: 1

Missing topics and requests

• More theoretical background: 1
• More discussions on the methods/parameters:
• More on statistics: 1
• More on scripting:
• Group analysis: 2
• Analysis of personal data: 1
• Software and database architecture: 1
• Generation of surfaces: 2
• Data import/export: 2
• Figure export: 1
• Simulations: 1
• Multi-modal applications: 1

Missing tools in Brainstorm

• Statistics: 1
• Animal models: 2
• Compumedics file format: 1
• Channel-specific annotations: 1
• ICA: 1
• Weighted averaging of trials: 1
• Source reconstruction in frequency bands: 2
• Dipole fitting: 2
• Measures of model quality: 1
• FEM: 1
• Open windows as tabs: 1
• Import DTI and compare connectivity: 1
• Import fMRI results: 2
• fNIRS: 1
• Out-dated tutorials: 1
• Spike clustering: 1
• Using tools from other programs: 1
• Synchronized video: 1
• More tools to manipulate/register MRIs of patients: 1

Technical issues

• Out of memory while importing anatomy

• Other out of memory errors

Results analysis

Results encoding

1. 1=Never used, 2=Some simulation work, 3=Some experimental work, 4=Experienced user, 0=NA
2. How helpful: 1(worst) to 5(best), 0=N/A
3. Online tutorials before coming: 1=No, 2=Yes, 0=N/A

Results values

1. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 3 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 4 4 1 1
2. 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 3 4 0 5 3 5 5 0 4 5 5 4 4 3 4 4 1 4 5 4 4 4 4
3. 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 2 0 2 1 2 1 0 2 1 1 1 2 0 2 2 2 2 1