Brainstorm workshop survey: Orlando 2014

Selected comments from attendees

• "THANKS - it was a great workshop"

• "Well paced, questions answered clearly"

• "Very good workshop, lots of info"

• "A little fast for me at times, but Beth was super helpful in getting me back on track"

Survey results

Number of participants: 35
Number of returned documents: 13 (37%)
Link to the pdf document.

Summary

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

   • Never used: 54%

   • Some simulation work: 8%
   • Some experimental work: 38%
   • Experienced user: 0%
2. How helpful was the class in learning Brainstorm: 1(worst) to 5(best)
   • 1: 0%
   • 2: 0%
   • 3: 0%

   • 4: 77%

   • 5: 23%

3. Did you try the online tutorial before coming to class:
   • Yes: 62%
   • No: 31%
   • N/A: 8%
4. Interested in using Brainstorm for:
   • EEG: 77%
   • MEG: 77%
   • MEG+EEG: 54%
   • NIRS: 0%
   • sEEG/ECoG: 8%
   • Scripting: 23%
   • Pre-processing: 46%
   • Visualization of recordings: 53%
   • Source analysis: 69%
   • Time-frequency: 54%
   • Functional connectivity: 46%
   • Statistics: 38%
   • Research: 85%
   • Clinical applications: 38%
   • Epilepsy: 46%
   • Baby / infant studies: 0%

Comments and suggestions

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

Comments about the workshop

• Good pace and clarity: 6

• Too fast in general:

• Too fast in the afternoon: 4

Missing topics and requests

• Import own results and use Brainstorm just for display: 1
• Explain better the dataset used for the workshop: 1
• More on group analysis: 1
• More on basic ERP analysis: 1

• Less on connectivity & time-frequency: 1

• Loading personal ROIs: 1

Missing tools in Brainstorm

• Beamformers: 2
• Dipole fitting: 1
• Statistics: 1
• Multi-variate pattern analysis: 1

Technical issues

• Out of memory while importing anatomy: 10

• Windows PC with no admin rights: 4

• Function fminsearch missing in Matlab: 1
• Forgot a few times to explain how to get back to initial state before new analysis

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