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Harnessing Modern Web Application Technology To Create Intuitive And Efficient Data Visualization And Sharing Tools, Dylan Wood, Margaret D. King, Drew Landis, William Courtney, Runtang Wang, Ross Kelly, Jessica Turner, Vince D. Calhoun

Psychology Faculty Publications

Neuroscientists increasingly need to work with big data in order to derive meaningful results in their field. Collecting, organizing and analyzing this data can be a major hurdle on the road to scientific discovery. This hurdle can be lowered using the same technologies that are currently revolutionizing the way that cultural and social media sites represent and share information with their users. Web application technologies and standards such as RESTful webservices, HTML5 and high-performance in-browser JavaScript engines are being utilized to vastly improve the way that the world accesses and shares information. The neuroscience community can also benefit tremendously from …