{"id":29,"date":"2023-10-10T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/graphics-and-apps\/?p=29"},"modified":"2024-01-18T11:16:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:16:59","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/graphics-and-apps\/2023\/10\/10\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the MATLAB Graphics and App Building blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to the launch of the MATLAB Graphics and App Building blog! I am your host, Adam Danz<\/a>, whom some readers may recognize from the MATLAB Central Community. My experience with MATLAB started as an overwhelmed graduate student staring at an empty MATLAB desktop unsure of where to begin. Working as a Ph.D. student in a neurophysiology laboratory, specializing in vision science, I developed a passion for data analytics and building interactive apps to streamline my analyses. One evening in the lab I stumbled upon the MATLAB Central community and decided to answer some questions. Engaging with 1000s of fellow users since then and delving into their projects, goals, and challenges has been an immensely rewarding experience.<\/div>\n
In 2020, I was honored to join the MathWorks Community Advisory Board, and in 2022, I became a developer on the MATLAB Graphics and Charting team at MathWorks. While my expertise is in areas of science, math, and data analytics, I also occasionally express some artistic creativity through MATLAB (secretly, I'm really in it for the math). Here are some graphics I generated as a grad student and MathWorker in the MathWorks Mini Hack contests (2021<\/a>, 2022<\/a> galleries; but wait till you see what my manager can create!).<\/div>\n
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Today I\u2019m excited to bridge my experiences as a MATLAB user, community contributor, and MathWorker as the host of the new MATLAB Graphics and App Building blog! In addition to my own contributions, expect to meet other esteemed guest contributors from the graphics and app building area at MathWorks, who will each bring diverse perspectives and backgrounds.<\/div>\n

Why do we need a graphics and app building blog?<\/h2>\n
Some readers may fondly recall MathWorks\u2019 Mike on MATLAB Graphics blog<\/a> from 2014-2017 which served as a valuable resource for navigating the changes to the graphics system in R2014b. Since then, our system has grown in many exciting new ways and directions:<\/div>\n