Many here in Massachusetts started social distancing about a month ago and we have no end in sight yet. If you live alone, maybe you are ready to match up with someone after you get through this hardship. Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi, has a perfect algorithm for you. I love that this was inspired by a problem that, at first glance, doesn't seem very technical or relevant. But it is!... read more >>

As the threat of novel corona virus COVID-19 spreads through the world, we live in an increasingly anxious time. While healthcare workers fight the virus in the front line, we do our part by practicing social distancing to slow the pandemic. Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi, would like to share how he spends his time by analyzing data in MATLAB.... read more >>

MATLAB is a great computing environment for engineers and scientists. MATLAB also provides access to general-purpose languages including C/C++, Java, Fortran, .NET, and Python. Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi, would like to talk about using MATLAB with Python.... read more >>

A lot of information is shared on the web and a lot of people are interested in taking advantage of it. It can be used to enrich the existing data, for example. However, information is buries in HTML tags and it is not easy to extract useful information. Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi shows us how he uses MATLAB for web scraping to harvest useful data from the web and then uses fuzzy string match to enrich existing data.... read more >>

Social media has become an important part of modern life, and Twitter is again a center of focus in recent events. Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi gives us an update on how you can use MATLAB to analyze a Twitter feed.... read more >>

Publish or perish, they say in academia, and you can learn trends in academic research through analysis of published papers. Today's guest blogger, Toshi, came across a dataset of machine learning papers presented in a conference. Let's see what he found!... read more >>

Do you use any free "learn to code" website to teach yourself programming? You may already know how to program in MATLAB, but you may very well be learning other skills on MOOCs.... read more >>

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When one of my guest bloggers, Toshi posted, Can We Predict a Breakup? Social Network Analysis with MATLAB, he got several questions about the new graph and network algorithms capabilities in MATLAB introduced in R2015b. He would like to do a follow-up post to address some of those questions.... read more >>

The R2015b release is here and one of the exciting new features lets us create, explore, and analyze graphs and networks. Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi, shows you how to get started with social network analysis using this new feature.... read more >>