Brainstorm workshop survey: Moscow 2013

Selected comments from attendees:

• "The workshop was excellent, thank you very much !!"
• "Absolutely clear and good pace for most of the audience"
• "It's very easy, clearly describes every step"
• "The visualizations of anatomy and connectivity results are very interesting and beautiful"
• "This class was the clearest in this science school"
• "I learned more than I hoped to"

Survey results

Number of participants: 35
Number of returned documents: 29 (83%)
Link to the pdf document.

Summary

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

   • Never used: 59%

   • Some simulation work: 10%

   • Some experimental work: 24%

   • Experienced user: 7%

   • N/A: 0%
2. How helpful was the class in learning Brainstorm: 1(worst) to 5(best)
   • 1: 0%
   • 2: 0%
   • 3: 0%

   • 4: 21%

   • 5: 79%

3. Did you try the online tutorial before coming to class:

   • Yes: 37%

   • No: 48%

   • N/A: 14%
4. Interested in using Brainstorm for:

   • EEG: 66%

   • MEG: 55%

   • MEG+EEG: 34%

   • NIRS: 0%
   • sEEG/ECoG: 7%
   • Scripting: 14%

   • Pre-processing: 48%

   • Visualization of recordings: 59%

   • Source analysis: 52%

   • Time-frequency: 52%

   • Functional connectivity: 45%

   • Statistics: 48%

   • Research: 52%

   • Clinical applications: 7%
   • Epilepsy: 7%
   • Baby / infant studies: 3%

Comments and suggestions

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

Comments about the workshop

• Good pace and clarity: 14

• A bit rushed in the afternoon: 3
• A bit too fast in general: 2
• A bit too slow in the morning: 1

Missing topics and requests

• Processing EEG data / ERPs: 3
• More on statistics: 2
• More on forward/inverse modeling: 1
• Would have been better with Neuromag data / FIF files: 1

Missing tools in Brainstorm

• Better stats: 3
• Development of the functional connectivity: 2
• More pre-processing: filters, different types of artifacts: 1
• Beamformers: 1
• MEG/EEG + fMRI: 1
• Typing the coordinates in the MRI viewer: 1

Technical issues

• Out of memory issues: 5
  • Importing the MRI
  • SSP computation

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