Brainstorm workshop survey: Seattle 2013

Selected comments from attendees:

• "Super! Thank you both! Clearly thought-out teaching plan + practical pace"
• "For being very new to neuroimaging analysis, I was very impressed that I was able to follow along"

Survey results

Number of participants: 35
Number of returned documents: 16 (45%)
Link to the pdf document.

Summary

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

   • Never used: 81%

   • Some simulation work: 6%
   • Some experimental work: 6%

   • Experienced user: 6%

   • N/A: 0%
2. How helpful was the class in learning Brainstorm: 1(worst) to 5(best)
   • 1: 0%
   • 2: 0%
   • 3: 6%

   • 4: 68%

   • 5: 19%

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

   • Yes: 56%

   • No: 44%

4. Interested in using Brainstorm for:

   • EEG: 88%

   • MEG: 50%

   • MEG+EEG: 31%
   • NIRS: 13%
   • sEEG/ECoG: 13%
   • Scripting: 6%
   • Pre-processing: 38%

   • Visualization of recordings: 56%

   • Source analysis: 69%

   • Time-frequency: 63%

   • Functional connectivity: 81%

   • Statistics: 50%

   • Research: 69%

   • Clinical applications: 63%

   • Epilepsy: 56%

   • Baby / infant studies: 44%

   • Other: Non-human primate: 6%

Comments and suggestions

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

Comments about the workshop

• Good pace and clarity: 10

• Too fast in general: 2
• A bit too slow in the morning: 1
• Too long / two-day workshop: 2

• Give print-outs to follow along: 4

• Not well organized and examples confusing: 1
• Computer too slow: 2
• Reserving a computer lab to avoid laptop issues: 1
• More time for Mosher talk: 1

Missing topics and requests

• More EEG specific material: 5

• Pre-processing of MRI / FreeSurfer segmentation: 2

• MEG/EEG fusion: 1
• Assistance on processing custom data: 1
• Videos to illustrate the steps that are skipped: 1
• Analysis of published data rather than median-nerve: 1
• Speaker good with technical, but testing hypothesis might be best way to demo to diverse audience: 1
• Working with multiple subjects: 1

Missing tools in Brainstorm

• More stats: 3

• More connectivity: 3

• Phase-locking index: 1

Technical issues

• Out of memory issues: ?

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