Highlight Reel

Rebecca

• Came up with an amazing nickname for Chris "Norgie" McNorgan.
• Graduated. Got a Big Person job.

Elizabeth

• Agreed to coordinate the sorting, tagging and filtering of 20K concept features. That's a really huge quantity of data.

James

• Got stumped with Matlab. Went and got a haircut. Came back ready to get things done.
• Made an awesome shell file that contains a bunch of code needed for functional analysis (which would be a pain to type in by hand).

Erica

• Painted original artwork for the lab.
  • Also makes really nice looking powerpoint slides that can explain waveform filtering
• Whizzed through a whole pile of statistical analyses in R like "no big". So second-nature to her that she doesn't even realize her skill level.
• Got a coffee maker
• Single-handedly brought in a fridge.
• Shows pretty much anyone who will listen how to get started with FreeSurfer
• Always catches the little details

Greg

• Made a funny remark about how writing a guide about writing guides was "pretty meta"
• Realizes we should have just been issuing electronic Amazon gift cards all this time
• Enabled login-controlled edits to the wiki

Connor

• Showed up

Jennifer

• Pretty much single-handedly running the GLM analysis of the SemCat study
• Presenting a winning poster on it

George

• Apparently has a perfect brain
• Manages to get perfect blobs in his brain
• Graduated. Got a big person job.

Cary

• Sorted out how to work with MNI305 data that we had been ignoring up to late Spring 2019 mostly because we didn't know how to extract it
• Kept plugging away at our classifiers till they got past 90 percent accurate and got us using Batch Normalization

Anthony

• Got me using Spyder

Andy

• Figured out how to get our FreeSurfer anatomical files into a printable format.

Mandy

• Reminded me that I had a package to pick up from the main office. They were document covers, so that was really exciting.