1.4.0
1.4.0 (2020-03-04)
Installing neurotic | Updating neurotic | Documentation
New features
- Add computation of smoothed firing rates for spike trains (#189)
- Add
quick_launch
function for easier scripting and interactive sessions (#191, #196) - Add
blk
param toload_dataset
for using existing Neo Block (#196) - Add
rec_datetime
metadata parameter for setting real-world start time (#190) - Add
past_fraction
metadata parameter for controlling the placement of the vertical line marking the current time (#220) - Add color options for signal plots to metadata (#177)
- Add options for scaling the user interface (#222, #241, #242)
- Add launch via double click in standalone app (#218)
Help & feedback
- Display loading indicator when launching in the standalone app (#223)
- Prompt the user to reload metadata after using the menu to edit metadata (#226)
- Show “Downloads complete” in app status bar and in log (#219)
- Add menu action status tips to standalone app (#221, #240)
- Add “Check for updates” to help menu (#201)
- Add Help menu actions for opening common URLs (#198, #230)
- Add Python version and neurotic install path to About window (#181)
- Display common error messages to status bar in standalone app (#225)
- Display a splash screen when first starting the standalone app (#224)
Jupyter tutorial
Start the tutorial using neurotic --launch-example-notebook
or view it here.
- Add API tutorial to example Jupyter notebook (#234, #236)
- Add shell commands to example Jupyter notebook for installing neurotic (#185)
Other changes
- Move RAUC calculations to
load_dataset
and store them as annotations (#188) - Disable RAUC calculations by default (#193)
- Allow
data_file
to be unspecified in metadata and signals to be optional (#195) - Ignore
video_file
if PyAV is not installed (#231) - Rename elephant functions (#183)
Bug fixes
- Fix crash when
plots
list is empty (#217) - Fix plotted signal sampling rate and start time if units are not Hz and sec, respectively (#194)
- Fix incompatibility with old versions of tqdm and unknown download size (#184)
Documentation
- Improve documentation for installation and updating (#180, #229)