{"id":2305,"date":"2017-06-12T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T12:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2017-06-28T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T22:23:38","slug":"customer-blog-a-great-resource-especially-for-earth-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2017\/06\/12\/customer-blog-a-great-resource-especially-for-earth-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Blog, a Great Resource, Especially for Earth Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\"><h3>Customer Blog, a Great Resource, Especially for Earth Sciences<\/h3><p>I recently started following a new blog by Martin Trauth, called <a href=\"http:\/\/mres.uni-potsdam.de\/\">MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences<\/a>.  Even if you are not an earth scientist (which, by the way, is part of my scientific lineage), you may find many useful nuggets there.<\/p><p>Martin is a geoscience professor at University of Potsdam.  He's written well-regarded textbooks, one with the same title as his blog (which he currently posts to at a very healthy pace, one I cannot sustain!).<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/loren\/2017\/earthsciencerecipes.png\" alt=\"\"> <\/p><p>Martin's post cover a huge range of topics, many of which are not at all specific to, though helpful to, geoscientists.  Some notable titles I read recently include:<\/p><div><ul><li>Missing Version History of MATLAB Functions<\/li><li>Counting Flamingos with MATLAB<\/li><li>Better Avoid Running Means<\/li><li>Detecting Change Points in Time Series with MATLAB<\/li><li>Calculating 3D Point Clouds From Stereo Images Using MATLAB<\/li><li>Classical Linear Regression of Log-Transformed Data<\/li><\/ul><\/div><p>In addition to posts on computation, Martin's blog also addresses working with Lego Mindstorms hardware with MATLAB. And more.<\/p><p>I think Martin's site is one you might want to start following.  Do you know of other sites in a similar vein?  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