Webinars

This page lists the CML webinars, organized as part of the CML teaching and education activities by subprojects Z1 and Z2 in phase 1 (2016-2019) of the project.

You are kindly requested to register for the events. Please send an email to a.maye at uke.de to let the organizers know whether you plan to participate. It is recommended to test the connection a couple of days before the event. Very likely the web browser will install or update plugins, which can take time or not work at all. If you encounter technical problems during the setup, please contact the organizers. To watch archived recordings of the webinars, please visit the CML owncloud.

Winter Semester 2018/2019

Title: Introduction to PsychoPy - part 5
Speaker: Dr. Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, http://lindeloev.net
Date: October 10, 2018
Time: 10:00 CEST (相当于下午4点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
We will continue to explore the coding approach to PsychoPy using Spyder or Coder. Topics of the this session include:
- Making an experiment flow
- Collecting data and saving it
- Tips and tricks for ensuring optimal code performance
Title: Introduction to PsychoPy - part 4
Speaker: Dr. Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, http://lindeloev.net
Date: September 26, 2018
Time: 10:00 CET (相当于下午4点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
Topics of the this session include:
- The pure-code use of the psychopy module.
- Precise control of visual appearance: size in degrees visual angle, color, luminance, etc. in DKL or CIELAB color space.
- Precise control of timing: presentation and inputs.
- Synchronizing events, e.g. visual, auditory, and triggers
As preparation, try getting Spyder hooked up to PsychoPy as instructed here: http://lindeloev.net/psychopy-course/getting-started. Spyder is a way better editor than Coder which ships with PP by default. But Coder will do if you can't get it to work.

Summer Semester 2018

Title: Introduction to PsychoPy - part 3
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Peirce, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychology/people/jonathan.peirce
Date: August 22, 2018
Time: 10:00 CEST (相当于下午4点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
Topics of the this session include:
- Code in parameters & dynamic stimuli
- Adding Code Components
- Online studies OR Connecting with hardware (labjack & parallel ports etc?)
Title: Introduction to PsychoPy - part 2
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Peirce, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychology/people/jonathan.peirce
Date: August 15, 2018
Time: 10:00 CEST (相当于下午4点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
Topics of the this session include:
- Understanding frames and timing
- Block designs & counterbalancing
Title: Introduction to PsychoPy - part 1
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Peirce, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychology/people/jonathan.peirce
Date: August 08, 2018, Time: 10:00 CEST (相当于下午4点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
From http://www.psychopy.org/: "PsychoPy is an open-source application allowing you run a wide range of neuroscience, psychology and psychophysics experiments." - and robotics experiments, of course. We are very happy that the inventor and main developer of PsychoPy, Dr. Jonathan Peirce, agreed to give this Webinar.

Topics of this session include:
- Introduction to PsychoPy (20mins)
- Building and analyse a simple study: Posner Cueing (20mins)
- Units, timing and coordinates: Posner Cueing with images (20mins)
Title: Introduction to scientific programming in R - part 6
Speaker: Dr. Gernot Supp (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gernot-g-supp-3288933a)
Date: July 26, 2018
Time: 10:00 CET (相当于下午4点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
The upcoming webinar will be focused on the essential concepts of descriptive statistics and how to implement them in R. In fact, you will learn how to summarize and visualize data effectively answering three simple questions:
1. What is the "typical value" of the measured data (estimates of location)?
2. How far are the data values spread out (estimates of variability)?
3. What is the overall shape of all the data?

During the course you will get re-usable coding examples to generate frequent plotting types, such as point (scatter) and line plots, histograms, frequency polygons and frequency tables, bar plots, box plots, density plots, violin plots, ... and many more.
Title: Computational Models of Associative Learning
Speaker: Dr. Jan P. Gläscher (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan_Glaescher)
Date: 17.7.2018
Time: 10:00 CET (相当于下午5点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
In contrast to previous webinars, this time you are requested to register for the event. Please send an email to a.maye at uke.de and let me know whether you plan to participate.
Title: Introduction to scientific programming in R - part 5
Speaker: Dr. Gernot Supp (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gernot-g-supp-3288933a)
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Time: 10:00 CET (相当于下午4点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
Using real data and many different plotting examples, the upcoming webinar will be focused on the following topics:
- Start visualizing your data in R (point, line and histogram plots)
- Using the modular visualisation framework "ggplot2": its logic and their components
- Getting the most frequent plotting types in R easily
- Essential plotting options
- Plotting adjustments: title, labels, coordinate-systems
Title: Introduction to scientific programming in R - part 4
Speaker: Dr. Gernot Supp (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gernot-g-supp-3288933a)
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Time: 10:00 CET (相当于下午4点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
Building on the progress from the previous parts of the course, the upcoming webinar will be focused on the following topics:
- Short refresh: data types and data structures
- Today's data project: challenges working with real world data
- Setting up your local computer for data handling
- Handling missing data
- Plotting routines in R
- Unified grammar of data transformation in practice
Title: Introduction to scientific programming in R - part 3
Speaker: Dr. Gernot Supp (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gernot-g-supp-3288933a)
Date: Thursday, May 17, 2018
Time: 10:00 CET (相当于下午4点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
Building on the progress from the first part of the course, the upcoming webinar will be focused on the following topics:
- Basic subsetting and extracting
- Benefits of modern data frames
- Basic control structures in R (e.g. loops)
- Modern coding approaches (e.g. handling multiple input files)
- Clean and effective coding: the pipe operator
- A unified grammar for data manipulation: Manipulate, transform and select data
Title: Introduction to scientific programming in R - part 2
Speaker: Dr. Gernot Supp, data scientist and freelancer, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gernot-g-supp-3288933a
Date: 12.4.2018
Time: 10:00 CET (相当于下午4点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
This time we start a little data analysis project; a short description is attached. It is recommended to recapitulate the previous lecture by Dr. Supp and make sure that you have a running installation of R-Studio and the tidyverse module.

Winter Semester 2017

Title: Coherence and phase locking - A beginner's tutorial
Speaker: Dr. Guido Nolte, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Time: 10:00 CET (相当于下午5点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
Title: Introduction to scientific programming in R - part I
Speaker: Dr. Gernot Supp (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gernot-g-supp-3288933a)
Date: Thursday, December 14, 2017
Time: 10:00 CET (相当于下午5点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
This webinar will take place at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/cmlwebinar/.
Contents:
- Short intro: RStudio interface
- Setup Git on your local computer (version control)
- Set-up an R project
- Create a R Markdown document (document coding cycles)
- Installing and including libraries
- Loading data
- Data types and data structures (and why they are important)

To get the maximum from this webinar, the speaker suggests that every participant installs the following software packages before the event:
1. R (https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/)
2. RStudio IDE (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download)
3. TeX/LaTeX (optional)
Title: Introduction to Python
Speaker: Dr. Julian Kunkel, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg (https://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/people/julian_kunkel)
Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Time: 10:00 CET (相当于下午5点北京时间)
Duration: <1hr
We will use Skye for holding this webinar. Skype can be downloaded from skype.com. To use Skype, you need to create an account.
Contents:
* Quick Introduction to Python
* Interactive lab notebook
* Demos for:
* Data analysis with Matplotlib, Pandas. Psychopy...
* Web-Questionaires using Django
* An interactive analysis