Wow...2016. What a long, strange trip it's been.But it's over, and once again, without further ado: we close out the Pick-of-the-Week year with a review of our Picks of the year.You can read the original blog posts for each of these picks by clicking on the names of the files... read more >>

Jiro‘s pick this week is Base64 Image Encoder by Michael Katz.
Some of you may remember Mike from when he was one of the bloggers for the MATLAB Community Blog, formerly known as the MATLAB Desktop blog.
Starting from R2016a, you can create live MATLAB scripts, which are executable MATLAB documents that… read more >>

Contents

Glob File Searching in MATLAB
What’s a Glob?
How does this differ from using the DIR function in MATLAB?
Enhance GLOB function in R2016b using the new String class.
Potential Alternative: Use Operating System Commands
Any thoughts on this entry?

Glob File Searching in MATLAB
Greg’s pick this week is Expand wildcards for files and directory names… read more >>

Sean‘s pick this week is hourglass by Tillmann Stuebler.

Do you ever present with MATLAB? As an application engineer, this is a core part of my job. However, even with as exciting
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Jiro‘s pick this week is Tabbed Figure by Curtis.
Have you ever wanted to visualize a bunch of data so that you can quickly explore through them? Well, that sounds like a pretty standard thing to do in MATLAB. I can easily create plots, perhaps on separate figure windows, or subplots,… read more >>

Richard is Consulting Engineer at MathWorks focused on the Embedded Coder product for code generation, primarily in the Aerospace industry.
Richard’s pick this week is Creating and Populating a Simulink Dataset from Simulink model by Stacey Gage.
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Have you ever wanted to feed custom data to a Simulink model? One approach… read more >>

Sean‘s pick this week is MATLAB File Association Fix by Patrik Forssén.

Have you ever gone to open a MATLAB file of any kind and it did not open in MATLAB? The one I remember frequently from my
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Jiro‘s picks this week are two of the many new features of R2016b: MarkerIndices property for specifying marker locations and jsonencode/ jsondecode.
In the past, I’ve highlighted a couple of new product features which were related to previous Picks: “Interactive Legend in R 2016a” and “Does your origin go through zero?”…. read more >>

Deep Learning for Image Classification
Avi’s pick of the week is the Neural Network Toolbox Model for AlexNet Network, by The Neural Networks Toolbox Team. AlexNet is a pre-trained 1000-class image classifier using deep learning more specifically a convolutional neural networks (CNN). The support package provides easy access to this powerful… read more >>

Jiro‘s picks this week are the top 3 entries* from the 2016 MATLAB and Simulink Hardware Challenge.

Kinect and IMU data to Android App by diegomrivera.
Gesture Controlled Robotic Arm Using Kinect (Simulink Support For Kinect) and Arduino by Avinash Baranitharan
Building a low-cost Spectrophotometer of visible light using ARDUINO and MATLAB by… read more >>