A Teaching and Tutorial Tool

DataView has an extensive collection of sample files, and these can be combined with user-generated data files to teach some of the principles of digital data analysis. General principles such as filtering, the importance of the Nyquist frequency, spectral analysis, principal component analysis, the properties of the discrete wavelet transform etc can be investigated. More specialist neuroscience applications may also be instructive, such as spike recognition and frequency analysis, correlation analysis of post-synaptic potentials, phase and latency analysis of multiple recording channels, and much more.

Since the free unlicensed version of DataView can read standard text files, it can be used to analyse results obtained in class laboratory exercises, or even artificial data sets constructed using programmes such as Excel.