# Loren on the Art of MATLABTurn ideas into MATLAB

Posted by Loren Shure,

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 new feature introduced in R2019b called Live Editor Tasks which allow you to complete steps in your workflow interactively from within the Live Editor.... read more >>

# Compose Yourself!9

Posted by Loren Shure,

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 >>

# Estimating pi Using Buffon’s Method6

Posted by Loren Shure,

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 >>

# Mathematical Word Problems – Construction Tool5

Posted by Loren Shure,

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 >>

# Internet of Things – How to Get Started1

Posted by Loren Shure,

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 >>

# dimsum in MATLAB12

Posted by Loren Shure,

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 >>

# Big Data in MAT Files

Posted by Loren Shure,

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 >>

# How to Suppress Function Output9

Posted by Loren Shure,

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 >>

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