Tal Yarkoni

Explicit __init__ methods for Transformer classes

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A minor issue with the current `Transformer` hierarchy is that most of the user-facing classes don't have to define explicit `__init__` methods. This isn't a problem functionally, but it makes...

Allow reading API credentials from JSON file

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In cases where an API has multiple variables, we should allow a user to point to a JSON file in a single ENV variable, and then read the variables out...

E.g., a `GraphStim`—where we could then wrap networkx or other packages to provide graph-based feature extraction (and add conversion between existing stims and GraphStims, etc.).

Add logging

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We should log all major events (most importantly, running each `Transformer`) as they happen. We can use the `logging` module in the standard library and log key events at INFO...

General convention for handling TextStims with empty values

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I feel like this has come up before, but I can't find any record of it here. In any case: there are some Transformers that take `TextStim` inputs that bug...

I assume this is true of all collections, but haven't checked (see, e.g., https://neurovault.org/collections/7586/). If you try to sort on Type, you get a datatables ajax error (after a few...

Currently it looks like the data required for pycortex is injected into the viewer template server-side. It would be helpful to add an API route that makes the static files...

Next-gen Neurosynth/NeuroStuff is going to provide a NIMADS view around the contents of NeuroVault. To avoid having to re-ingest the entire NeuroVault database periodically, we need to add the ability...

Currently the `Collection` and `Image` models have a lot of first-order fields that are pretty specific and should probably be organized under free-form dictionaries. For example, `Image` fields like `tanner_stage`...

NeuroVault is now partly funded by NIH, so we should add the NIH logo to the front page.