In a previous life I spent most of my time (free and otherwise) thinking about
phonetics and the analysis of speech sounds. Like most scientific research, it
was slow and tedious and oddly rewarding.
Back then I was already in a steady drift towards spending more time playing
with computers than with my research, so a lot of my efforts went into
studying Praat, a piece of software you've
almost certainly never heard of, but that has probably been used in most of
the phonetics research you've also never heard of.
If you're doing statistics on vast swathes of data, you could use PDL!
Santa's Naughty and Nice list has over a billion names and the Elf Data Analytics section of the workshop produces
a display of trends for the January retrospective.
If there is an increase in naughtiness, is it because nice children are starting to forget their manners
or are naughty children using rude words, taking up smoking and creating merge conflicts?
You would think this discussion goes on using the social media tailor-made for cold weather climates ... Mastodon!
Seeing is believing. A better presentation can more easily persuade people with your story.
I, working as an EEG (electroencephalography) researcher, sometimes need to consider the location of its origin, referring to the electrode positions used while recording the data.
This is because the scalp distribution of the recorded EEG potential (amplitude) can be affected by how the electrodes align with each other.
Here I need to better visualize 3D locations of electrode positions.
Let’s try visualization of those electrode positions using Perl, in 3D manner, where you can change the camera position to watch them from your favorite angle/direction!