I recently was working with Dave Schoppik on extracting a subset of elements from his dataset. In his lab, they work to understand
the ways our brains enable us to move. Here's Dave's description.
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I recently wrote an article on Beginner Woes, and I thought I would add some more gotcha topics today. Contents ... read more >>

Release 2007a came out today. This corresponds to MATLAB version 7.4. I will list here a few of my favorite new MATLAB features. I will discuss some of them in future... read more >>

I'm pleased to introduce Tim Davis as this week's guest blogger. Tim is a professor at the University of Florida, and is the
author or co-author of many of our sparse matrix functions (lu, chol,... read more >>

There are a few pitfalls that new users of MATLAB almost always fall into, depending on their applications. I thought it might be nice to summarize a few of them here,... read more >>

There are some cases, particularly simulations, in which we need to choose a few items from a finite list. A friend mentioned to me that he was doing a Monte Carlo... read more >>

Did you know that you can customize the direction of text in MATLAB plots? There are times when such annotations work better than if they were purely horizontal or... read more >>

I just had an interesting exchange with a customer. He was trying to have an anonymous function return multiple outputs. Contents ... read more >>

I'm pleased to introduce Ned Gulley as this week's guest blogger. Ned is a software developer with an amateur's interest in astronomy. He was motivated by a recent discussion... read more >>

We use color as a dimension to understand the world. For some datasets, judicious choice of colormaps provides a useful means for gleaning information. ... read more >>