General Tips (more specifics at bottom of page)

• Get PyCharm Professional Edition (free for students) instead of the PyCharm Community Edition
  • Professional Edition includes “Scientific Mode”. With that you are able to access ‘dataframes’ from the Pandas library directly. Additionally, you can immidiately view graphs you created from Seaborn or Matplotlib.pyplot
• View the Public Dataset ‘Types’
  • Here you can view what ‘types’, as in integer or float64 etc., certain variables are within the dateset.
  • That can be helpful if you are getting error messages that point to you using a wrong variable ‘type’.
• Definitely set up a new virtual environment within the Anaconda UI so that you can make sure you have all the right ‘dependencies’/packages intalled
  • See here how to install the environment recommended for using while accessing the IBL data (iblenv)

Potentially Helpful Articles

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