Getting Started with Cerebral Cortex

In order to start utilizing Cerebral Cortex, some dependencies are necessary to install and configure. Docker containers are utilized to minimize installation efforts both for development and production usage.

• Download and install Docker
• Install docker-compose
• Download Apache Spark 2.1.x
• Clone https://github.com/MD2Korg/CerebralCortex-DockerCompose
• Run docker-compose up to initialize the containers before proceeding with the next steps

Cerebral Cortex codebase

• Clone https://github.com/MD2Korg/CerebralCortex (IntelliJ preferred)
• Follow README.md instructions to configure the project and get everything up and running

Data files

Download and extract the zip file from the example data here https://mhealth.md2k.org/datasets/

Data import

By running the following commands, you can import data into the databases through Cerebral Cortex’s methods. This only needs run once for each data set you wish to import and interact with.

Interacting with data streams

The data diagnostics routines are great examples for exploring Cerebral Cortex’s syntax for interacting with data streams

Running cStress

cStress is the first of many biomarker computations that will be incorporated into the system and this repository will continue to be updated with new capabilities. cStress.py provides an example of how we write signal processing code based on the Spark programming abstraction.

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