Lesion quantification toolkit
The lesion quantification toolkit (LQT) is a publicly available software package for quantifying the probabilistic impacts of focal brain lesions on structural connectivity.
Who do you follow?
Many Twitter users mostly follow people like themselves. This tool helps people estimate, and hopefully change, the gender and racial/ethnic breakdown of the accounts they follow.
Citation tools and initiatives
Reference lists show marked gender and racial/ethnic imbalances. To mitigate these disparities, we discuss ethical considerations and offer practical recommendations and tools for scientists
The landscape of neuroimaging research
An analysis of the NeuroImage’s keyword trends and networks over the past 10 years. Illustrates changing popularity of various topics in the field, and provides an interactive user interface.
Reskilling to avoid automation
A portion of US jobs may be eventually be automated away, and transitioning workers to new tech-centric careers seems to be a popular recommendation. This visualizion-based article explores the occupation network to find more attainable job transitions based on skill overlap.
Sentiment analysis of Stranger Things
After binging season 2 of Stranger Things, I ran a sentiment and network analysis of the emotion trajectories of the show’s first two seasons. The article provides data visualizations of emotional trends, finds common patterns across episodes, and considers implications for viewership.
Ranked-choice voting simulation
A statistical simulation of the potential results of the 2016 Republican primaries under ranked choice voting, with a blog post describing the methodology and results.