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A Couple of Topics in Curve Fitting 3

               "All the noise, noise, noise, NOISE!"
                       -- The Grinch

Today's guest blogger is Tom Lane. Tom has been a MathWorks developer since 1999, working primarily on the Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox. He'd like to share with you a couple of issues that MATLAB users repeatedly encounter.... read more >>

When is a Baked Good a Cookie? 1

This is one time of the year when there is often an abundance of baked goods showing up in my office, and many others no doubt. And you hear people say things like, "That's the best cookie I ever had!". And sometimes a debate ensues.... read more >>

Math with Words – Word Embeddings with MATLAB and Text Analytics Toolbox 1

Text data has become an important part of data analytics, thanks to advances in natural language processing that transform unstructured text into meaningful data. The new Text Analytics Toolbox provides tools to process and analyze text data in MATLAB.... read more >>

Ways to Perform Calculations on Groups of Data in Tables 4

Today I'd like to introduce a guest blogger, Stephen Doe, who works for the MATLAB Documentation team here at MathWorks. Stephen will discuss different methods for grouping data, and performing calculations on those groups, using Tables.... read more >>

Speed Dating Experiment 2

Valentine's day is fast approaching and those who are in a relationship might start thinking about plans. For those who are not as lucky, read on! Today's guest blogger, Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi, explores how you can be successful at speed dating events through data.... read more >>

Multi-Armed Bandit Problem and Exploration vs. Exploitation Trade-off 5

Casino slot machines have a playful nickname - "one-armed bandit" - because of the single lever it has and our tendency to lose money when we play them. They also inspire the creativity of researchers. Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi, will introduce an interesting thought experiment known as multi-armed bandits.... read more >>

Text Mining Machine Learning Research Papers with MATLAB 3

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 >>

Survey Reveals Diversity in the “Learn to Code” Movement 6

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 >>

Swing Low, Sweet Probability: Guessing the results of every match in the 2015 Rugby World Cup

Today's guest blogger is Matt Tearle, who works on our MATLAB training materials here at MathWorks. Originally from New Zealand, Matt was delighted with the All Blacks' recent victory at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. What better way to celebrate than to analyze the results with MATLAB?... read more >>

Analyzing Baby Names with MATLAB R2015b 1

Today's guest blogger is Matt Tearle, from the Training Services group here at MathWorks. Matt puts two data analysis functions introduced in R2015b through their paces with some unexpected uses.... read more >>

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