NG data club

Nottingham Psychology data club resources

Some materials for the lunchtime data club, an informal weekly/fortnightly meeting at the University of Nottingham.

Aim

Bring people with varied backgrounds together to talk about, unpack, learn about quantitative methods for data

organising
analysing
visualising

Github repo

You can find notes, presentations, and code at the ng-data-club github repository.

Schedule

Upcoming talks:

Denis Schluppeck:

De-noising of fMRI data, improving GLM estimates, …

Paper: Improving the accuracy of single trial fMRI responses

Prince et al (2022), https://elifesciences.org/articles/77599

2025-03-18, 12noon (UP-PSYC-B37)

Mark Andrews (NTU):

Bayesian Statistics: Background and applications

Special workshop, Book via EventBrite

2025-04-01, 10:00 - 13:00 (UP-ESLC B05)

Evgeniya Lukinova:

Assistant Professor in Behavioural Analytics (N/LAB)

Business School

Intertemporal choice across short and long time horizons: an fMRI study

TBC

Damian Eke:

Data governance, FAIR principles, ABDN, …

TBC (UP-PSYC-B37)

Have a look at the list of presentations for past presentations, code, etc.

Discussion forum

You can also check out the github discussion forum for the data club. A good place to share ideas, links, etc.

Code of conduct

We have a code of conduct that applies to our meetings, emails, MS Teams, github discussion forum and other interactions. Please have a look at it.

Ideas for meetings / wishlist

We will try to keep meetings informal with some guided discussion by presenters that will change week by week.

Structure will be around:

I want answer the following question with my data… How do I do that? and/or
I know the following technique, which could help you with bla…

Colophon

Organised by Denis Schluppeck and Mark v Rossum

artwork by DALL-E (https://labs.openai.com/) using the prompt: “a robot performing data analysis reading computer code with mathematic symbols standing in front of a whiteboard photorealistic”