Pranjal Gupta

Pranjal Gupta

PhD Student in Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University working with Dr. John Pearson on online dimensionality reduction.

Posts by Pranjal

Unconvoluting convolutions - an introduction and applications to neuroscience

If you’ve worked with any kind of neural data, convolutions were involved at some point. Having an intuition for convolutions is quite useful in thinking about what your data actually...

A brief intro to the most useful kind of algebra (linear)

If you’ve ever wondered how R or python gives you regression coefficients, the answer is linear algebra! Linear algebra operations are essential to almost all modern methods for analyzing or...

Big Data & Complexity

As human beings continue to march through the information age, we produce ever-larger quantities of data every second. This is especially relevant to us as scientists, as data gathering and...