Loren on the Art of MATLAB

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Coordinating Views 2

Ever wanted to have coordinated views of multiples plots when you pan or zoom? You can do this in MATLAB. Let's suppose I have two plots and I want to be sure they keep... read more >>

Double or Nothing? No Joking! 16

Note the date, folks. I am using this excuse to be a bit light-hearted today. I saw the following quote on someone's door here at MathWorks. ... read more >>

Ensuring Positive Values – Part 2 6

My last post started the discussion about how to ensure data values met certain constraints. The solutions I talked about were ones where you checked at certain places during a... read more >>

Ensuring Positive Values – Part 1 4

Do you sometimes need to be sure an array has only bounded, positive values? At least one customer asked about this recently and noted that it could be quite involved. ... read more >>

Constrained Sorting of Arrays 37

In a variety of applications, customers have requested a way to sort arrays subject to some constraints. One use case is when a row in an array represents a data record. Clearly, ... read more >>

MATLAB Behavior: for 34

Conventional wisdom for programming MATLAB used to be that using for loops automatically forced a program to suffer from poor performance. Since MATLAB R13 (version 6.5), MATLAB has... read more >>

A Case for Divergence between MATLAB and C 14

There are some functions in MATLAB that we designed to be similar to their counterparts in other languages. There are also some functions that we deliberately designed... read more >>

Carving a Dinosaur 36

Today I’d like to introduce a guest blogger, Ben, who is consultant over in The MathWorks UK. Some of you may have come across his customer projects and demos on image... read more >>

Calculus with Empty Arrays 24

MATLAB has had empty arrays since before I started using the program. When I started, the only size empty array was 0x0. When version 5 was released, empty arrays came along for the... read more >>

Handling Discrete Data

Discrete data arise in many applications and the data may be numeric, or non-numeric, often referred to as categorical. Not all data are strictly numeric, and other... read more >>

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