I do a lot of seminars and talk to a lot of people about what they are trying to do in MATLAB. One of the more common questions is how to get a surface plot from their data when the data is not on a... read more >>

You all know that Release 14 was just released (which will probably put me out of the File Exchange business since the new features make my most popular files irrelevant). One of the things I'm most... read more >>

NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. OK, it's time for a confession. I'm embarrassed. Really embarrassed. A little while back I posted a media... read more >>

People do some fancy stuff with MATLAB to predict future events – from what the stock market will do next to determining if a design change will allow an airplane to meet performance specs. … read more >>

The other day I was doing a Monte Carlo analysis where I had two independent varables and one scalar output. A good visualization for this is a two dimensional histogram. Unfortunatly, these are not... read more >>

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Duane wrote the book on MATLAB, he also wrote this pair of functions to find the max and min of an entire… read more >>

NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. I really like M2HTML, which automatically creates HTML documentation for MATLAB m-files and toolboxes. It... read more >>

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There are lots of ways to get help on MATLAB related issues, you can call tech support, e-mail them, or go to… read more >>

How many times have you done something like this? % BEGIN draw a horizontal line xMin = 0; xMax = 10; % the current extents of the x axis yVal = 12; hold on plot([xMin xMax], [yVal, yVal]) hold... read more >>

Christophe Couvreur's Octave Toolbox has been a favorite of mine since the good old days of FTP file swapping. I'm an acoustician by trade and training, so I've often needed to perform octave and... read more >>