Brainstorm workshop survey: Marseille 2015

Selected comments from attendees

Survey results

Number of participants: 30
Number of returned documents: 19 (63%)
Link to the pdf document.

Summary

1. Before today's class, how would you describe your use of Brainstorm:
   • Never used: 47%
   • Some simulation work: 5%
   • Some experimental work: 48%
   • Experienced user: 0% (advanced users were present but didn't return the survey)
2. How helpful was the class in learning Brainstorm: 1(worst) to 5(best)
   • 1: 0%
   • 2: 0%
   • 3: 0%
   • 4: 16%

   • 5: 85%

3. Did you try the online tutorial before coming to class:
   • Yes: 74%
   • No: 26%
4. Interested in using Brainstorm for:
   • EEG: 79%
   • MEG: 53%
   • MEG+EEG: 21%
   • NIRS: 0%
   • sEEG/ECoG: 11%
   • Scripting: 21%
   • Pre-processing: 47%
   • Visualization of recordings: 47%
   • Source analysis: 74%
   • Time-frequency: 53%
   • Functional connectivity: 53%
   • Statistics: 47%
   • Research: 42%
   • Clinical applications: 11%
   • Epilepsy: 5%
   • Baby / child studies: 0%
   • TMS: 5%
   • Electrophysiology: 5%

Comments and suggestions

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

Comments about the workshop

• Good clarity:

• Good pace:

• A bit slow:
• A bit fast:

Missing topics and requests

• Resting state:
• More on statistics:
• More on scripting:
• More on connectivity:

Missing tools in Brainstorm

• Beamforming:

• More statistics:

Technical issues

• Win32 computers: many out of memory errors

• Installation of OpenMEEG on MacBooks caused problems

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