{"id":2031,"date":"2007-08-28T10:27:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2007\/08\/28\/heat-maps-in-matlab\/"},"modified":"2016-11-16T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T20:23:30","slug":"heat-maps-in-matlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2007\/08\/28\/heat-maps-in-matlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat maps in MATLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at The MathWorks we are always concerned with useful ways of displaying data. A heat map is a graphical representation of data where the values taken by a variable in a two-dimensional map are represented as colors. This is something that is natural for an image, and indeed we have had that in <a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/images\/ref\/imtool.html (link no longer works)\">IMTOOL<\/a> for quite sometime now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2030\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/..\/images\/pick\/imtool.jpg\" alt=\"imtool.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/loadFile.do?objectId=15877&amp;objectType=file#\">week&#8217;s pick<\/a> shows how to make a heat map in MATLAB for your own data. This heat map will scale nicely so that the text is always the right size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at The MathWorks we are always concerned with useful ways of displaying data. A heat map is a graphical representation of data where the values taken by a variable in a two-dimensional map are&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2007\/08\/28\/heat-maps-in-matlab\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8057,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/8057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}