Looking back: 2017 in review

Posted by Brett Shoelson, December 29, 2017

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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 of these picks by clicking on the names of the files and following the links to the “Pick of the Week” tag.

As always, your comments are welcome. Happy New Year, everyone!


The Ideal Gas Law, Data, and Footballs Daniel Frey Explore the phenomena behind deflategate and learn about data analysis
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Deep Learning in 11 Lines of MATLAB Code MathWorks Deep Learning Toolbox Team Use MATLAB®, a simple webcam, and a deep neural network to identify objects in your surroundings.
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Lego Mindstorms EV3 Bike Project Michele Basso Model based control of a Lego Mindstorms EV3 bike
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Solving Missionaries and Cannibals Problem Mikhail Missionaries and Cannibals Problem solved with Simulink Design Verifier (and simple visualization)
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Animated Interactive HTML Benjamin I Convert a matlab mesh to a transforming 3D figure on the web
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Semaphore POSIX and Windows Andrew Smart Patches Dillon’s work to allow native semaphore usage within Matlab on Windows and POSIX systems
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PPAP Yoko Miyazaki PPAP Animation by MATLAB
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Deep Learning: Transfer Learning in 10 lines of MATLAB Code MathWorks Deep Learning Toolbox Team Use transfer learning for training a deep neural network to classify 5 different types of food.
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Deep Learning in 11 Lines of MATLAB Code MathWorks Deep Learning Toolbox Team Use MATLAB®, a simple webcam, and a deep neural network to identify objects in your surroundings.
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3DScope Giampiero Campa Multitrack 3D Simulink Scope
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Hyperlink Michele Scalseggi This function displays a hyperlink pointing either to a web page or to some MATLAB code.
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Mobile Devices Challenge Jiro Doke MathWorks announces the winners of the 2017 Mobile Devices Challenge.
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Physical Units Toolbox Sky Sartorius Enables operations using hundreds of supported physical units of measurement and physical constants.
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Customizable Heat Maps Ameya Deoras Visualize data as a heatmap with many customizable options.
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Guide To Object Neil Hopcroft Tool for converting GUIDE UIs to Object Oriented Matlab
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parseTime Robert Converts number of seconds to a human readable time string.
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The Speech Transmission Index (STI) Jacob D An implementation of the Speech Transmission Index (STI) for MATLAB
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easyBrowser Michele Scalseggi Browse easily through MATLAB files and folders
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`circleFinder` Brett Shoelson Interactive app and function to find circles in an image.
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Subplot Position Calculator Christopher Hummersone Calculate subplot positions by specifying figure margins and axis scaling.
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cell2underlying MathWorks Parallel Computing Toolbox Team Simplifies use of tall arrays with fileDatastore
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Deep Learning Tutorial Series Johanna Pingel Download code and watch video series to learn and implement deep learning techniques
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Process Manager Brian Lau Matlab class for launching and managing asynchronous processes
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CatStruct Jos (10584) Concatenate/merge structures (v4.1, feb 2015).
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Source Control Information Block Gavin Walker Display Simulink project source control information in the Simulink editor
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CNN for Old Japanese Character Classification Akira Agata Create Simple Deep Learning Network for Old Japanese Character Classification
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Fidget Spinner (Simscape Multibody) Pavel Roslovets 3DOF gyro psysical model of fidger spinner
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Signature Tool McSCert The Signature Tool extracts the interface of a Simulink subsystem.
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“Read text from a PDF document” Derek Wood Read the text from a simple PDF document into MATLAB as a string
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Real-Time Pacer for Simulink Gautam Vallabha Simulink block for forcing a simulation to run in real (wall clock) time
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impressionism David Mills impressionism takes an RGB image and “paints” it as though it were an impressionist painting.
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OOP example per isakson tracer4m traces calls to methods and functions.
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Stateflow sliding mode controller demo Bogumila & Zbigniew Mrozek Controller jumps between fast unstable trajectories. It has very fast response, short settling time
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`nancumprod` Brett Shoelson Compute the cumulative sum of matrices, specifying the treatment of NaNs.
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`csvreadtail` Mike Reads the last N lines of a CSV file without needing to load and parse the entire file.
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Cursorbar Marjorie Cursorbar creates a cursor line attached to an axes or lines.
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Membrane Logo Zoetrope Ned Gulley A zoetrope-style animation of the MathWorks logo.
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MATLAB Basemap Data MathWorks Mapping Team Color terrain basemap data for geographic visualization.
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New Deep Learning Blog Steve Eddins A new MathWorks blog on deep learning.
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Mock Object Paul Sexton A mock object library for MATLAB.
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`labelpoints` Adam Danz Automatically label points in your plot given x and y values & an array of labels.
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Mex Multithreading Dirk-Jan Kroon Example of (Windows) multi-threading in a MEX file
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STOICAL Reinhold A Toolbox for Efficient Parameter and Structure Variation of Simulation Models in Simulink
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QR Code encode and decode Lior Shapira Functions to encode and decode a QR bar-code in images
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Get Computer MAC Address Xiangrui Li Get MAC address for different operating systems
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getElevations Jaroslaw Tuszynski getElevations function queries Google Maps API webservice for ground elevations
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Line – Goto From Tool MsCSert The Line to Goto/From tool converts signal lines to Goto/From connections, and vice versa.
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Pottslab – Multilabel segmentation of vectorial data Martin Multilabel image segmentation for vector-valued images based on the Potts model
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“Historical Stock Data Download (alternate Method)” Captain Awesome Retrieves historical stock data from Yahoo Finance by parsing html pages instead of .csv download.
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Star Wars API Reader Heather Gorr Read data from the Star Wars API.