As part of my internship at the Allen Institute, I worked with Dr. Daniel Millman on his research (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33108272) regarding suppressed by contrast VIP neurons. These neurons inhibit activity of downstream neurons in the visual cortex based on the presence of perceived difference gratings creating visual contrast. My work consisted of making a database of the variety of cells, categorizing them based on anatomical location, intensity level of suppression, stimuli they were tuned to, and other metrics. This processed involved selecting groups of neurons I wanted to observe at a time, cleaning the data regarding these neurons, reorganizing them based on multiple cell types, and then drawing population-level analytical results and representing them visually, ultimately culminating in a poster I made detailing this process.