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+Applications
+============
+
+This directory contains a series of practicals which focus
+on using Python to accomplish specific tasks, and practicals which introduce
+a range of useful Python-based libraries.
+
+Practicals are split into the following sub-categories (and sub-folders):
+
+1. `data_visualisation` : learn to use various data visualisation packages.
+2. `fslpy`: a collection of utilities and data abstractions used within FSL and by FSLeyes.
+3. `matlab_vs_python` : a number of data analysis examples with head-to-head comparisons between matlab and python code.
+4. `modelling` : multiple examples of analysis methods in python.
+5. `pandas` : processing and analsing tabular data with the powerful Pandas package.