Over a long number of years, people have asked whether it's better to use cellfun or a for-loop to perform certain computations. As with so many things in life, the correct answer here is "it depends". Let me give you a bit more insight so you can make good choices.... read more >>

Even if we crunch numbers a lot, there are plenty of times, for example, when reporting, that we need to mix numbers into text. For a very long time, we've been able to create a character vector, and more recently, a string, with functions like sprintf. Look here for more information on character arrays and strings.... read more >>

I recently attended the ICIAM meeting in Valencia, Spain which meant I got to hang out with my pals Carlos Sanchis and Lucas Garcia :-)! Carlos showed me a problem he was working with Professor Fernando Giménez from UPV regarding an app for estimating $\pi$ using Buffon's method. Here's the problem statement from Wikipedia:... read more >>

Do your kids have to practice solving mathematical word problems? Maybe they need to practice more during school breaks? I've written a function that can turn you in to a machine for torturing your kids with some.... read more >>

I'm sure you've heard of IoT, Internet of Things. And people talk about connected devices, and getting the data from them to use in applications. I want to show you a very simple example to spark some ideas in each of you.... read more >>

As Steve noted in a recent post, several of the functions that operate along specific dimensions have been updated to add some new functionality, for example the function sum. (I also think he missed a great opportunity for a cool blog post title, which is only partly why I am writing about it now :^) ). Please read his post!... read more >>

Today's guest blogger is Adam Filion, a Senior Product Manager at MathWorks. Adam helps manage and prioritize our development efforts in data science and big data.... read more >>

You may have noticed that we have some functions that return no output if none is requested, and yet some functions always return something, even if not asked. What's a good way to achieve this in MATLAB?... read more >>

Today I’d like to introduce a guest blogger, David Garrison, who is a MATLAB Product Manager here at MathWorks. Dave will talk about the Live Script Gallery where you can go to view and run interesting live scripts from the MATLAB Community.... read more >>

I have been a little bit slow in announcing some of the coolest new features/products in the most recent release, R2019a. Why should you even care? What does Stateflow do? It allows you show the logic behind the work you are doing. You may say "I can already do that in MATLAB with if/else statements, switch/case statements, etc. And you can. But as you add extra conditions, the nesting of code and at least my ability to fully comprehend it can create a lot of mental overhead and burden. With state charts, you can encapsulate extra condition behavior without quite some much clutter, and yet high clarity.... read more >>