Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials

Archive for the ‘Format: Video’ Category

• Combinatorics
  June 14th, 2013
  
• Making a line visible over an image in MATLAB
  June 10th, 2013
  
• Quick Tip: Speeding up debugging iterations
  May 30th, 2013
  
• Polar surface plot in MATLAB
  May 17th, 2013
  
• Speeding up User Interfaces in MATLAB with profiler
  May 3rd, 2013
  
• Generalizing the access to an array of structures in MATLAB
  April 17th, 2013
  
• Using ‘dbstop if error’ and conditional breakpoints to debug MATLAB
  April 8th, 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
  
• GUI building in MATLAB
  February 13th, 2013
  
• Indexing to make an image in MATLAB
  January 25th, 2013
  
• Example: Speed up MATLAB code by profiling
  January 17th, 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
  
• Simple test scripts in MATLAB
  October 16th, 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
  
• Choosing algorithm based on data size.
  August 21st, 2012
  
• Naive vs Complex solutions
  August 1st, 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
  
• Schneier’s solitaire cipher
  June 14th, 2012
  
• How to label a series of points on a plot in MATLAB.
  May 30th, 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
  
• MATLAB 2012a: Face detection
  March 9th, 2012
  
• Highlighting solutions to Project Euler problems 001-005
  February 14th, 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
  
• Passing data between GUIDE callbacks without globals in MATLAB
  November 23rd, 2011
  
• Expression evaluation in MATLAB
  November 11th, 2011
  
• Contest is on! Vines
  November 2nd, 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
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• Creating a custom data cursor
  February 25th, 2011
  
• Context menus in an amortization application in MATLAB
  February 15th, 2011
  
• Animating an objects trajectory in MATLAB with HGtransform
  February 2nd, 2011
  
• Associating x and y with a surface
  January 28th, 2011
  
• How to add to a cell array in MATLAB
  January 13th, 2011
  
• Making test data in MATLAB
  January 7th, 2011
  
• MathWorks products solving a Rubik’s cube
  December 29th, 2010
  
• Tradeoffs: Code complexity vs data storage
  December 20th, 2010
  
• How to save and restore state of a GUI in MATLAB
  December 10th, 2010
  
• How to loop until a button is pushed in MATLAB
  December 3rd, 2010
  
• Subplot vs axes
  November 22nd, 2010
  
• MATLAB contest: sneak peak
  November 8th, 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
  
• 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
  
• MATLAB Optimize an algorithm that the profiler can not help
  August 12th, 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
  
• MATLAB Controlling color saturation points on an image
  June 11th, 2010
  
• Find newest file in a directory
  June 3rd, 2010
  
• MATLAB tutorial about Any and All
  May 26th, 2010
  
• Code review: finding the closest point on a surface
  May 14th, 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
  
• Basics: Making a vector the MATLAB way
  February 23rd, 2010
  
• Advanced: Getting an output from a GUIDE GUI
  February 12th, 2010
  
• Advanced: Speeding up an enumerated string search in a data mining application
  January 29th, 2010
  
• Advanced: making a 2d or 3d histogram to visualize data density
  January 22nd, 2010
  
• Basics: Dialogapalooza- a look at many predefined dialogs
  January 15th, 2010
  
• Basics: Refactoring a switchyard into a formula
  January 8th, 2010
  
• Advanced: Loading, filtering and displaying geographic data with the Mapping Toolbox.
  December 17th, 2009
  
• Advanced: Making a sweeping slice through volume of data.
  December 11th, 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
  
• Contest: Flood wrap-up
  November 13th, 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
  
• Basics: Volume visualization: 2/9 Examples of scalar and vector fields
  October 30th, 2009
  
• Finding the area inside a convex hull
  October 9th, 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
  
• Puzzler: Results of most difficult puzzler yet
  August 14th, 2009
  
• Puzzler: Rules of the new game
  July 28th, 2009
  
• Advanced: Modifying a contour plot with Handle Graphics
  July 17th, 2009
  
• Basics: Visualizing a function of two variables
  July 10th, 2009
  
• Advanced: loading files using their names for variable names
  July 2nd, 2009
  
• Using HIST and BAR to customize your histograms
  June 12th, 2009
  
• Building a GUI to read, modify and write an Excel file. 4/4
  June 5th, 2009
  
• Building a GUI to read, modify and write an Excel file. 3/4
  May 29th, 2009
  
• Building a GUI to read, modify and write an Excel file. 2/4
  May 22nd, 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
  
• Speeding up Doug’s solution with the profiler
  April 17th, 2009
  
• Setting the colormap to be consistent across axes.
  March 27th, 2009
  
• Reshape a matrix without using a for loop
  March 13th, 2009
  
• Read data from the web with URLREAD
  March 3rd, 2009
  
• Dynamic field name usage
  February 27th, 2009
  
• Using parent child relationships to find figures
  February 20th, 2009
  
• Debugging session
  February 3rd, 2009
  
• Breaking up compound statements for the profiler
  January 21st, 2009
  
• Binning data in MATLAB
  January 7th, 2009
  
• 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: Tolerances in comparisons
  December 1st, 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
  
• Video: Saving the state of a GUI
  October 31st, 2008
  
• Student Center tutorials
  October 24th, 2008
  
• Review of spiral puzzler
  October 2nd, 2008
  
• Interactive parallel computing in MATLAB
  September 30th, 2008
  
• Importing Excel data and fitting a curve to it
  September 23rd, 2008
  
• Campus visit and MATLAB video on object tracking
  September 17th, 2008
  
• New location and memory allocation
  September 16th, 2008
  
• Advanced MATLAB: File name processing from directory listing
  September 9th, 2008
  
• Interview about making MATLAB Videos
  September 2nd, 2008
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Dynamic field names
  August 20th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Setting edge color for large surface plots
  August 13th, 2008
  
• Jiro’s live seminar, Complete: higher resolution video
  August 11th, 2008
  
• Jiro’s live seminar, part 9 of 9: Recap and automated reporting
  August 8th, 2008
  
• Jiro’s live seminar, part 8 of 9: Designing for variability
  August 7th, 2008
  
• Jiro’s live seminar, part 7 of 9: Optimize the design
  August 6th, 2008
  
• Jiro’s live seminar, part 6 of 9: Making scripts from command history and cell mode
  August 5th, 2008
  
• Jiro’s live seminar, part 5 of 9: Recap and Design of Experiments (DOE)
  August 4th, 2008
  
• Jiro’s live seminar, part 4 of 9: Automating plots with code generation
  August 1st, 2008
  
• Jiro’s live seminar, part 3 of 9: Plot tools for customizing plots
  July 31st, 2008
  
• Jiro’s live seminar, part 2 of 9: Importing from Excel and the MATLAB desktop
  July 30th, 2008
  
• Jiro’s live seminar, part 1 of 9 Overview of problem and results
  July 29th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Adding a toolbar to a GUI
  July 22nd, 2008
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Class system for OOP in MATLAB introduction
  July 7th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Interpolating data with interp1
  June 30th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Cell arrays for holding different data types
  June 23rd, 2008
  
• User made videos
  June 18th, 2008
  
• Puzzler: Difficult algorithm development challenge
  June 16th, 2008
  
• Post your MATLAB Videos
  June 9th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Puzzler: Finding the two closest points
  June 2nd, 2008
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Capture mouse movement
  May 27th, 2008
  
• Accessing data from one widget to another in GUIDE
  May 13th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Adding a table to a GUI
  May 7th, 2008
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Timer objects
  May 5th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Using dbstop if error
  April 28th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Array of structures vs Structures of arrays
  April 22nd, 2008
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Handles and other inputs to GUIDE callbacks
  April 17th, 2008
  
• Widgetpalooza: 12 widgets coded up in a GUI
  April 8th, 2008
  
• Doug’s Easter Egg, limited time only
  April 1st, 2008
  
• Puzzler: Coin game
  March 31st, 2008
  
• MATLAB Puzzler: Removing columns and rows from binary matrices
  March 25th, 2008
  
• Practical Example: Placing a sampling grid in a polygon part two
  March 18th, 2008
  
• Practical Example: Placing a sampling grid in a polygon
  March 11th, 2008
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Subplots
  March 3rd, 2008
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Calling Simulink from MATLAB
  February 27th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Getting a directory listing
  February 26th, 2008
  
• Practical example: Intersecting a circle with a line series
  February 19th, 2008
  
• Timing code in MATLAB
  February 12th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Change the string on a button when pushed
  February 5th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: Nested functions
  February 1st, 2008
  
• Practical Example: Adding callbacks to a plot
  January 28th, 2008
  
• Practical Example: Generating points inside a polygon
  January 21st, 2008
  
• Cool Feature: Video processing demos
  January 18th, 2008
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Capturing data from an instrument
  January 11th, 2008
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Varargin and Nargin- variable inputs to a function
  January 8th, 2008
  
• File Promo: Hexxagon
  January 4th, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: ‘Switch case’ vs. ‘If elseif’
  January 2nd, 2008
  
• MATLAB Basics: GUIs without GUIDE
  December 28th, 2007
  
• Advanced MATLAB: ButtonDownFcn
  December 26th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics: Functions and subfunctions
  December 21st, 2007
  
• Practical Example: Visualizing the density of a data cloud
  December 13th, 2007
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Compiling a GUI
  December 12th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics: Parsing code for better understanding
  December 6th, 2007
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Data acquisition in MATLAB
  December 4th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics: Scalar and Vector expansion
  November 29th, 2007
  
• Coaching call to debug GUI
  November 27th, 2007
  
• Practical example: Setting transparency on a patch
  November 21st, 2007
  
• Practical example: Algorithm development for making colormaps
  November 15th, 2007
  
• Mash-up with text message and password obscuring
  November 8th, 2007
  
• Advanced MATLAB: Surface plot of nonuniform data
  November 2nd, 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
  
• Using the clipboard from a GUI
  October 12th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Gallery of surface plots
  October 10th, 2007
  
• MATLAB Basics video: Using NaN as placeholder data in graphics
  October 8th, 2007
  
• Cool feature: Run configurations
  October 2nd, 2007
  
• Video series: Expanding the GUI to do calculations on the data from Excel
  September 28th, 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
  
• Video series: Reading Excel data into MATLAB with a GUI
  August 13th, 2007
  
• Use case: Visualizing three images
  August 2nd, 2007
  
• Algorithm development video
  June 27th, 2007
  
• Cleaner code in MATLAB part two
  January 12th, 2007
  
• Cleaner code in MATLAB part one of series
  December 13th, 2006
  
• Automatically generated reports from MATLAB
  December 5th, 2006
  
• Linked zoom and constrained zoom in MATLAB
  November 27th, 2006
  
• Speed your code with Distributed Computing
  November 20th, 2006
  
• From the inbox: how to change properties in GUIDE from a button press
  November 13th, 2006
  
• More mini videos: Handle graphics and Shortcuts
  November 6th, 2006
  
• Profiler to find code bottlenecks
  October 19th, 2006
  
• How to pass data from one GUI to another in MATLAB
  October 3rd, 2005
  
• GUI Building Tutorial
  May 5th, 2005