Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials

Archive for the ‘Level: Basic’ Category

• Polar surface plot in MATLAB
  May 17th, 2013
  
• Speeding up User Interfaces in MATLAB with profiler
  May 3rd, 2013
  
• Using otherwise to throw errors in a switch case
  March 25th, 2013
  
• Persistent variables in MATLAB
  March 14th, 2013
  
• Adding UICONTROLS to MATLAB without GUIDE for simple interactive figures
  March 5th, 2013
  
• Simple visualizations for a statics problem in MATLAB
  February 20th, 2013
  
• Introduction to GUI building with GUIDE in MATLAB
  February 6th, 2013
  
• Indexing to make an image in MATLAB
  January 25th, 2013
  
• Visualizing random walk data (3/3)
  January 9th, 2013
  
• Visualizing random walk data (2/3)
  January 3rd, 2013
  
• Visualizing random walk data (1/3)
  December 26th, 2012
  
• Dynamically created colormaps
  December 19th, 2012
  
• Modifying a colormap interactively
  December 12th, 2012
  
• Review of changes made to a file reader
  December 7th, 2012
  
• Code review of a file reader: suggestion of changes
  November 28th, 2012
  
• Using keyboard shortcuts
  November 19th, 2012
  
• Ulam Spirial and interactive tweaking in MATLAB
  September 26th, 2012
  
• Making a custom data tip
  September 19th, 2012
  
• Using and removing NaN in MATLAB plots
  August 31st, 2012
  
• Using the MATLAB profiler to speed your code
  July 11th, 2012
  
• Debugging in MATLAB
  July 3rd, 2012
  
• Cryptography in MATLAB: Code review
  June 25th, 2012
  
• How to label a series of points on a plot in MATLAB.
  May 30th, 2012
  
• MATLAB training through Cody
  May 2nd, 2012
  
• Choosing a visualization in MATLAB
  April 26th, 2012
  
• Using convolution to smooth data with a moving average in MATLAB
  April 17th, 2012
  
• MATLAB Tutorial, processing an Excel file in MATLAB
  March 28th, 2012
  
• Highlighting solutions to Project Euler problems 001-005
  February 14th, 2012
  
• Project Euler on Cody
  February 3rd, 2012
  
• Understanding the display method for a cell
  January 19th, 2012
  
• How to do a matrix reshape by ‘blocks’
  January 10th, 2012
  
• Plotting multiple lines on a figure in MATLAB
  December 20th, 2011
  
• Expression evaluation in MATLAB
  November 11th, 2011
  
• Tutorial: How to make a custom data tip in MATLAB
  October 19th, 2011
  
• Managing subplot layouts in MATLAB
  October 7th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Nested sub functions
  September 20th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Sub functions
  September 9th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Driver scripts
  August 26th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Cell mode interactive
  August 19th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Cell mode publishing
  August 11th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Cell mode scripts
  July 26th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Functions of variable numbers of inputs and outputs
  July 20th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Functions of multiple inputs and outputs
  July 8th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Functions of one input and one output
  June 27th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Functions
  June 20th, 2011
  
• Managing code in MATLAB: Scripts
  June 13th, 2011
  
• Inserting data into a vector in MATLAB
  June 3rd, 2011
  
• Top five productivity practices in MATLAB
  May 27th, 2011
  
• Using logical indexing to plot points meeting a specific criteria only.
  May 16th, 2011
  
• Using image to view data instead of surf and view(2).
  May 9th, 2011
  
• Solution to MATLAB Graphics challenge for new users (2/2)
  April 22nd, 2011
  
• Solution to MATLAB Graphics challenge for new users (1/2)
  April 8th, 2011
  
• Graphics challenge
  March 29th, 2011
  
• Adding a debug button to a MATLAB GUI.
  March 21st, 2011
  
• How to store a series of vectors from a for loop.
  March 9th, 2011
  
• Context menus in an amortization application in MATLAB
  February 15th, 2011
  
• Associating x and y with a surface
  January 28th, 2011
  
• Proudly launching MATLAB Answers
  January 20th, 2011
  
• How to add to a cell array in MATLAB
  January 13th, 2011
  
• Making test data in MATLAB
  January 7th, 2011
  
• Tradeoffs: Code complexity vs data storage
  December 20th, 2010
  
• How to loop until a button is pushed in MATLAB
  December 3rd, 2010
  
• Subplot vs axes
  November 22nd, 2010
  
• Making a matrix in a loop in MATLAB
  November 5th, 2010
  
• Simple transparent graphics in MATLAB using alpha
  October 29th, 2010
  
• Formatting code for readability
  October 22nd, 2010
  
• Writing out your workspace variables as a script with Simulink.saveVars
  October 12th, 2010
  
• Deleting in a loop
  September 24th, 2010
  
• Using debugger to walk through code.
  September 2nd, 2010
  
• Setting reverse and log properties for an axis
  August 27th, 2010
  
• MATLABdo: The Way of MATLAB
  August 18th, 2010
  
• How to fix common indexing errors with for loops
  July 29th, 2010
  
• MATLAB: Setting custom tick labels
  July 23rd, 2010
  
• Building strings from variables
  July 15th, 2010
  
• Debugging is faster with save and load
  July 6th, 2010
  
• using temporary variables
  June 25th, 2010
  
• Puzzler: Running it twice
  June 16th, 2010
  
• Find newest file in a directory
  June 3rd, 2010
  
• MATLAB tutorial about Any and All
  May 26th, 2010
  
• Set up: Finding closest point on a surface
  May 5th, 2010
  
• Converting from a formula to a script to a function
  April 27th, 2010
  
• Copying a figure to the clipboard
  April 21st, 2010
  
• Deleting an element from a cell array
  March 30th, 2010
  
• Break and Continue
  March 19th, 2010
  
• Top 10 MATLAB code practices that make me cry
  March 8th, 2010
  
• Basics: Making a vector the MATLAB way
  February 23rd, 2010
  
• Basics: Dialogapalooza- a look at many predefined dialogs
  January 15th, 2010
  
• Basics: Refactoring a switchyard into a formula
  January 8th, 2010
  
• Basics: Finding a subset of a matrix
  December 31st, 2009
  
• Basics: Volume visualization: 9/9 Unifying example
  December 7th, 2009
  
• Basics: Volume visualization: 8/9 Displays and explains streamtubes and streamribbons
  November 30th, 2009
  
• Basics: Volume visualization: 7/9 Displays and explains streamplot and streamslice
  November 24th, 2009
  
• Basics: Volume visualization: 6/9 Displays quiver3 and coneplot
  November 20th, 2009
  
• Basics: Volume visualization: 5/9 Making a 3-d plot ‘pretty’ with lighting, shading, interpolation, etc…
  November 17th, 2009
  
• Basics: Volume visualization: 4/9 Display of contourslice and isosurface
  November 11th, 2009
  
• Basics: Volume visualization: 3/9 Display of scatter3 and slice plots
  November 6th, 2009
  
• Puzzler: Ultimate Frisbee- call it! Wrap up
  November 3rd, 2009
  
• Basics: Volume visualization: 2/9 Examples of scalar and vector fields
  October 30th, 2009
  
• Puzzler: Ultimate Frisbee- call it!
  October 27th, 2009
  
• Basics: Volume visualization: 1/9 Defining scalar and vector fields
  October 23rd, 2009
  
• Finding the area inside a convex hull
  October 9th, 2009
  
• Basics: Using ACCUMARRAY
  October 2nd, 2009
  
• Integrating to find the volume underneath a set of nonuniformly spaced data
  September 8th, 2009
  
• Basics: Implementing a formula in MATLAB
  August 27th, 2009
  
• Basics: Code review- the thought process in rewriting code for clarity
  August 21st, 2009
  
• GUI tutorials from the File Exchange
  August 6th, 2009
  
• Basics: Visualizing a function of two variables
  July 10th, 2009
  
• Using HIST and BAR to customize your histograms
  June 12th, 2009
  
• Building a GUI to read, modify and write an Excel file. 1/4
  May 15th, 2009
  
• Implementing a simple circular buffer
  May 8th, 2009
  
• Basics: Making a title based on a variable value
  April 24th, 2009
  
• Setting the colormap to be consistent across axes.
  March 27th, 2009
  
• MATLAB YouTube channel
  March 20th, 2009
  
• Reshape a matrix without using a for loop
  March 13th, 2009
  
• Using parent child relationships to find figures
  February 20th, 2009
  
• Debugging session
  February 3rd, 2009
  
• Exploring uitable properties
  January 29th, 2009
  
• Breaking up compound statements for the profiler
  January 21st, 2009
  
• Flow chart shows which visualization to use
  January 16th, 2009
  
• Binning data in MATLAB
  January 7th, 2009
  
• MATLAB example: Don’t reinvent the wheel
  December 18th, 2008
  
• Puzzler: Intermediate sums
  December 16th, 2008
  
• Video Tutorial: Using visualization to debug
  December 12th, 2008
  
• Video tutorial: 3d indexing
  December 9th, 2008
  
• Video tutorial: Verbal code review
  December 4th, 2008
  
• Video tutorial: Infinite series
  November 25th, 2008
  
• Video tutorial: Debugging a logical indexing problem
  November 20th, 2008
  
• Video Tutorial: MATLAB basics, LINKPROP
  November 4th, 2008
  
• Student Center tutorials
  October 24th, 2008
  
• Puzzler: Be in a usability study
  October 7th, 2008
  
• Review of spiral puzzler
  October 2nd, 2008
  
• Importing Excel data and fitting a curve to it
  September 23rd, 2008
  
• Puzzler: Working with polynomials
  August 26th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Setting edge color for large surface plots
  August 13th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Adding a toolbar to a GUI
  July 22nd, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Interpolating data with interp1
  June 30th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Cell arrays for holding different data types
  June 23rd, 2008
  
• Post your MATLAB Videos
  June 9th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Puzzler: Finding the two closest points
  June 2nd, 2008
  
• Accessing data from one widget to another in GUIDE
  May 13th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Adding a table to a GUI
  May 7th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Using dbstop if error
  April 28th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Array of structures vs Structures of arrays
  April 22nd, 2008
  
• Widgetpalooza: 12 widgets coded up in a GUI
  April 8th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Puzzler: Removing columns and rows from binary matrices
  March 25th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Getting a directory listing
  February 26th, 2008
  
• Timing code in MATLAB
  February 12th, 2008
  
• Sudoku solver
  February 8th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Change the string on a button when pushed
  February 5th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Nested functions
  February 1st, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: ‘Switch case’ vs. ‘If elseif’
  January 2nd, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: GUIs without GUIDE
  December 28th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics: Functions and subfunctions
  December 21st, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics: Parsing code for better understanding
  December 6th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics: Scalar and Vector expansion
  November 29th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics: GUI input validation
  October 30th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics: Linearly spaced vectors
  October 26th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics: Getting started from Excel
  October 18th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics: Setting a background image for a GUI
  October 16th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Gallery of surface plots
  October 10th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Using NaN as placeholder data in graphics
  October 8th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: UIGETFILE for selecting a file in a script, function or GUI
  September 27th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Colormaps
  September 26th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Interleaving data based on unique identifier
  September 17th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Concatenating vectors
  September 14th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Solving linear equations
  September 13th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Sorting matrices
  September 11th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Absolute and Logical indexing
  September 6th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Row and Column indexing
  August 31st, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Storing data in a matrix from a loop
  August 20th, 2007
  
• Automatically generated reports from MATLAB
  December 5th, 2006