Final Report: NED Vis

Integrating neuroscientific data across labs is a challenging endeavour, and extracting meaning from this data is even harder still. NeuroElectro.org collects electrophysiology, neuron type, and experimental conditions data from published articles and provides all of this data in text format for analysis. Here, we present NeuroElectro Data’s Visualization (NED Vis), an interactive visual interface to the data on NeuroElectro.org. It is the first tool of its kind in the Neuroscience domain and allows Neuroscientists to form hypotheses without having to download and wrangle with the data themselves. NED Vis consists of a filter menu sidebar and two tabbed panels: Overview and Explore. The Overview panel provides insight into the amount of data available for different combinations of data attributes. The Explore panel supports investigation of relationships between attributes of interest with interactively linked plots. The filter menu allows the user to narrow the scope of the analysis across both panels dynamically.