"Dealing with (even perversely) large bodies of data is a feature of contemporary neuroscience, whether one is working on single-cell recordings or neuroimaging. Regardless of experience - from undergraduate to Ph.D. student, post-doc to PI - we all must learn to think about and approach data analyses in new ways. This brilliant book teaches how to conceptualize and implement various fundamentally important data analytic techniques in neuroscience research. The book is destined to become an instant classic: it is very well structured, easy (and fun) to read), and the explanations (of the concepts and the implementations) are crystal clear. Whether you are learning about spike trains or regression, and whether you are a Python or Matlab enthusiast, you simply cannot help but learn the material and actually like it. It is really nice when sophisticated material is described and explained by people who want to teach and in fact like teaching.

It shows, and as a consequence this book is a didactic masterpiece." -David Poeppel, Director, Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute, Frankfurt "The definite introduction to the ins and outs of neural data analysis." -Jonathan Pillow, Associate professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI), the Department of Psychology and affiliated with the Center for Statistics & Machine Learning, Princeton University "A fantastic introduction to the computational methods that are foundational to neural data science." -Bradley Voytek, Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science and Neuroscience at UC San Diego "Making sense of data is emerging as the limiting factor of progress in neuroscience. This book is the accessible way to learn how to do that." -Konrad Koerding, Professor, Northwestern University "This is a fun, hands-on introduction to the important emerging field of neural data science. It's at the intersection of programming, data analysis, and neuroscience -- perfect for aspiring researchers looking to learn these three in parallel. This book will help inspire a new generation to join us in finding out how the brain works with modern computational tools.

" -Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Programme leader, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.