Python library to handle confounds/covariates

[raamana]

Title:
Confounds

Project lead:
Pradeep Reddy Raamana, @raamana

**[Timezone]
UTC-4

Hub:
The Americas

Description:
Develop a python library of methods to handle confounds in various neuroscientific analyses, esp. statistics and predictive modeling. More info and slides here: https://crossinvalidation.com/2020/03/04/conquering-confounds-and-covariates-in-machine-learning/

Link to project:
https://github.com/raamana/confounds

Mattermost handle:
@raamana

Goals for the OHBM Brainhack

To beef up and add various methods and statistics needed for typical analyses involving confounds:

• Add tutorial notebooks, with few example use-cases
• Implement ComBat
• Implement metrics, other statistics, related utilities: visualization helpers etc

All contributors will be authors in the paper to be published, describing this library and effort.

Good first issues:

• Implement metrics to quantify confound to target relationships
• Add tutorial notebooks, with few example use-cases
• Implement metrics to quantify the level of confounding in a given a sample
• Add tests for Residualize() with non-linear models
• Add tests for DummyDeconfounding() method

Skills:

• python programming (intermediate)
• some statistics
• documentation ability

Chat channel:
~hbmhack-confounds

Video channel:

Please have a look at the Mattermost channel (pinned posts) for the URL of the video channel, or alternatively, please contact to @raamana

Project submission

Submission checklist

Once the issue is submitted, please check items in this list as you add under 'Additional project info'

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• Link to your project: could be a code repository, a shared document, etc. See here
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• Flesh out at least 2 "good first issues": those are tasks that do not require any prior knowledge about your project, could be defined as issues in a GitHub repository, or in a shared document, cf here.
• Skills: list skills that would be particularly suitable for your project. We ask you to include at least one non-coding skill, cf. here.
• Chat channel: A link to a chat channel that will be used during the OHBM Brainhack. This can be an existing channel or a new one. We recommend using the Brainhack space on mattermost, cf. here.
• Video channel: Please create a video channel that will be used during the OHBM Brainhack and share it in your chat channel above. This can be an existing channel or a new one. For instance a jitsi meet room, cf. here.

You can also include information about (all optional):

• Number of participants

1-3 for ComBat
2-3 for the simple/first-time issues mentioned
More are welcome if they are already knowledgeable in this area and sufficiently independent

• Twitter-size summary of your project pitch
  Python library to handle #confounds/covariates in #machinelearning and #neuroscience, contribute to a great #openscience cause!
  github.com/raamana/confounds
  Pradeep Reddy Raamana @raamana_
  #OHBMHackathon #Brainhack #OHBM2020

• Provide an image of your project for the OHBM brainhack website

• kanban board

https://github.com/raamana/confounds/projects/1

• Project snippet for the OHBM Brainhack website, cf. here

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• Specify how will you acknowledge contributions (e.g. listing members on a contributing page).
• Provide links to onboarding documents if you have some.

[welcome]

(Image: CC-BY license, The Turing Way Community, & Scriberia. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3332808)
🎉 Welcome to the 2020 OHBM Hackathon! 🎉 We're really excited to have your input on this repository and welcome your idea! 💖 If you haven't done so already, please make sure you check out our Code of Conduct. Did you issue a new hackathon project? Please check if you have provided all relevant information and an image for the website.

[llevitis]

Hi @raamana! Thanks for adding this project and for being so thorough with the checklist and providing an image to use for publicizing the project :D

[raamana]

you're welcome Liza. I know you guys are already quite overwhelmed.

[complexbrains]

Dear @raamana I removed the information from your Video links to avoid any unwanted interference (even though it was password protected I know, to have a common consensus among all projects). So would you mind sharing that information in your Mattermost channel as well please? I also shared the link at the header of the channel!

So your project seems ready to go! Welcome aboard 🤗 🎊

[raamana]

Thanks Isil, see ya all tmrw.