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New MATLAB Contest
There is a new MATLAB contest running right now. I am anxious to see what kind of solutions people come up with for the Peg...

19 years ago

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Ant Colony Optimization
I recently finished up my final seminar for The MathWorks before transitioning to a new position at the MathWorks. (My old...

19 years ago

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Graphical tutorial: Import data from Excel, plot in MATLAB
I am always trying new ways of teaching people how to use MATLAB. This week, I am trying a very graphical step by step...

19 years ago

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Earth and moon visualization
This week’s pick comes from two of my colleagues in the UK, Sam and Marta. This is a cool visualization of the Earth and...

19 years ago

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ip to location
In the last few weeks I have been adding a some location information to this blog, from the map to the right that shows...

19 years ago

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Page Rank (simplified) in MATLAB for the classroom
I am currently doing a university tour as part of my role in Applications Engineering, so I have been thinking about the...

19 years ago

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File exchange reports and maps
We at The MathWorks are always trying to improve the experience of using MATLAB Central. Recently we have added: A new blog...

19 years ago

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Tabbed GUIs
Going through the e-mail this week, I was asked how to make a GUI with tab panels. I know that using a few special...

19 years ago

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All combinations from vectors
My colleague walked into my office with a MATLAB question, a regular pasttime for us here at the MathWorks. He wanted to...

19 years ago

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UIcontrol: slider panel
My buddy and colleague Brett made this great little UI tool. It allows you to have a slider where you can see what the...

19 years ago

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Lots of white papers
I enjoy reading The MathWorks News & Notes. Helen Chen has posted twenty articles from News & Notes to get them out...

19 years ago

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Graphical removal of data points
This week I wanted to show a cool utility for the removal of data points from a set. John wrote this code, it has plenty of...

19 years ago

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Observing the Earth
This week is a big World Wide training week at The MathWorks. I was looking for some way to visualize the globe in MATLAB....

19 years ago

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Cleaner code in MATLAB part two
This second video in the cleaner code series talks about magic numbers, and how to avoid them. It also covers naming...

20 years ago

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List of published m-files
I made a video about publishing reports from MATLAB a while back. Santosh, one of my fellow MathWorkers, was curious what...

20 years ago

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Mindstorm Robots
How many of us are buying Lego MindStorms kits “for the kids to play with” this Christmas? If so, bring home your laptop...

20 years ago

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Cleaner code in MATLAB part one of series
I am guilty of making some pretty horrible code from time to time, especially when I think no one else is looking. I wanted...

20 years ago

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Automatically generated reports from MATLAB
This week’s video is covering a relatively new feature of the editor: cell mode. Specifically, I am demonstrating the...

20 years ago

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Doug’s MATLAB t-shirt challenge
The new MATLAB programming contest is up as of this morning. I am issuing a challenge to all of you: If you write a better...

20 years ago

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Linked zoom and constrained zoom in MATLAB
Have you ever wanted to zoom in on one axes and have another axes zoom in at the same time? Have you ever wanted to zoom in...

20 years ago

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Speed your code with Distributed Computing
I am frequently asked how to speed up code that was written in MATLAB. We have already covered using the profiler in a...

20 years ago

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From the inbox: how to change properties in GUIDE from a button press
These GUIDE tutorials (Intro, Advanced) have been very popular since I posted them. Recently, someone asked me a question...

20 years ago

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More mini videos: Handle graphics and Shortcuts
People have really enjoyed the videos that I have been posting here, so I have made a few more. I am trying to figure out if...

20 years ago

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Step response information
My colleague Tom is much more of a controls kind of guy than I am, so he found this week’s pick before I did. He was much...

20 years ago

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Profiler to find code bottlenecks
Take a look at this video to see how to use the profiler to find the slow parts of your code. The movie resolution is a bit...

20 years ago

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Multiple Workspaces
This week’s pick is a recommendation that came to me by e-mail from Gordon. The recommendation was for “Multiple Concurrent...

20 years ago

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Simulink pick
I am a MATLAB kind of guy, but there is a whole other side to the File Exchange: Simulink. I enlisted Becky’s help in...

20 years ago

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file1, file10, file2 sorting problem: solved
Brett suggested this Pick of the Week, and I very much agree with his review: It seems that every computer user, at one...

20 years ago

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Distributed computing video
I spend most of my time at The MathWorks thinking about Distributed Computing. I recently did a webinar that discusses this...

20 years ago

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New video for file exchange tools
There is a new set of tools on the File Exchange that make it easier to quickly evaluate files and manage them. Try it out...

20 years ago