And so 2017 comes to an end. And here again, to close out a year of exciting File Exchange Contributions: our annual review of our Picks of the year.

You can read the original blog posts for each… read more >>

Sean‘s pick this week is Star Wars API Reader by Heather Gorr.

What is the average height of an Ewok?

allspecies = swapiread(‘species’);
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Jiro‘s pick this week is “Historical Stock Data Download (alternate Method)” by Captain Awesome.I’m not an expert in stocks, but I stumbled upon this entry when I received a… read more >>

Brett‘s Pick this week is Pottslab – Multilabel segmentation of vectorial data, by Martin.
Segmenting images and clustering data are very common challenges, for which MATLAB (and… read more >>

Sean‘s pick this week is Line – Goto From Tool by McSCert.

While reading Guy’s post about the new signal highlighting capabilities in R2017b, I was reminded of this… read more >>

Will‘s pick this week is getElevations by Jaroslaw Tuszynski.
Always a fan of simple, effective utilities, I couldn’t pass up selecting this useful little function. I discovered it while… read more >>

Sean‘s pick this week is Get Computer MAC Address by Xiangrui Li.

What is a MAC Address and what is it used for? I like the description in the answer to this howtogeek… read more >>

Jiro‘s pick this week is QR Code encode and decode by Lior Shapira.On October 31, we held our biggest annual event of the year, the MATLAB EXPO 2017 Japan. This year, I took part in organizing… read more >>

Greg’s pick this week is STOICAL by Reinhold.
Simulink is well suited for laying out block diagrams of system simulations. These models can be configured in numerous ways including block… read more >>

Sean‘s pick this week is Mex Multithreading by Dirk-Jan Kroon.

My pick this week is an example of how to write multithreaded MEX functions to take advantage of more of your… read more >>