{"id":2762,"date":"2011-05-06T13:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/05\/06\/looking-back-2007-in-review\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T13:40:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:40:42","slug":"looking-back-2007-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/05\/06\/looking-back-2007-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: 2007 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\n <\/introduction>\r\n

This week, I continue looking backward, with a retrospective of all of the File Exchange Picks of the Week for 2007.<\/p>\r\n

With this post, I am going to simplify this process--and hopefully make these indexes more useful as references. Specifically,\r\n I have skipped any Picks that refer to files that have been removed from the File Exchange, or to tutorial videos,\r\n or contest announcements, or....\r\n <\/p>\r\n

You can read the original blog posts for each of these picks by clicking on the names of the files and following the links\r\n to the \"Pick of the Week\" tag. As always, your comments<\/a> are welcome.\r\n\r\n

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\r\nEarth Observing System Data Visualization<\/a>\r\n

Rob Comer<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Read Earth Observing System (EOS) data products in HDF format and visualize them in MATLAB <\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nGraphical data selection tool<\/a>\r\n

John D'Errico<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A graphical tool to modify your plots and locate data points<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSLIDERPANEL<\/a>\r\n

Brett Shoelson<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A new UICONTROL object with a slider as a child of a uipanel, with auto-linked edit box and labels<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nPERMS<\/a>\r\n

Bill McKeeman<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Even, odd, cyclical, and unique permutations of a set of vectors<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nALLCOMB<\/a>\r\n

Jos<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

All combinations of an input vector <\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nTABPANEL EXAMPLE<\/a>\r\n

Bill York<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A sample tab panel built using GUIDE<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nBINARY CLOCK<\/a>\r\n

Joseph Kirk<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Displays the clock time in binary representation<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nPAGERANK DEMO<\/a>\r\n

Tim Davis<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A graphical demo of a random web surfer (aka Google's PageRank)<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n IP2LOCATION<\/a>\r\n

Divakar Roy<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Finds the location of an IP address<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n NIGHT ON EARTH<\/a>\r\n

Sam Roberts<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

An animated moon orbiting the earth<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSolving Symmetrical and DisSymmetrical TSP base on Ant Colony Algorithm<\/a>\r\n

Wang H<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm to solve Traveling Salesman Problem<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nMATCHROW<\/a>\r\n

Jos<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Match elements in the rows of a matrix<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n MARS ROVER LANDING ANIMATION<\/a>\r\n

Doug Hull<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Animation of Mars Rover <\/p>\r\n\r\n

NOTE: Although this file was posted to the File Exchange by Doug, the animation was created by NASA Langley Research Center researcher Ben Raiszadeh.<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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\r\nScalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Export of Figures<\/a>\r\n

Juerg Schwizer<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Converts 3D and 2D MATLAB plots to the scalable vector format (SVG)<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nOptimization Tips and Tricks<\/a>\r\n

John D'Errico<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Tips and tricks for use of the optimization toolbox, linear and nonlinear regression<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSHAREIT<\/a>\r\n

Richard Quist<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Print\/export a figure or Simulink model and share via email<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nCROSSING<\/a>\r\n

Steffen Brueckner<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Detect the zero- (or any-other-level-) crossing of a given signal, either in discrete data points or using linear interpolation<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nZoom Adaptive Date Ticks<\/a>\r\n

Andreas Krahnke<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Make date ticks adapt to zooming<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nGTRACK<\/a>\r\n

Jose Pina<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Track mouse position and show coordinates in figure title<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nbar4viacolor<\/a>\r\n

Andew Diamond<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

bar3, but with another dimension via bar color<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nShadePlotForEmphasis<\/a>\r\n

Michael Robbins<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Plots a shaded bar for emphasis as commonly seen on economic charts<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nDSPLOT<\/a>\r\n

Jiro Doke<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Creates a downsampled plot to improve the speed of exploration (zoom, pan)<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nHeat Maps with Text<\/a>\r\n

Robert Henson<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Heat maps with numeric values overlayed<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n ANIMATOR<\/a>\r\n

Jiro Doke<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

GUI tool that allows you to animate your data with controls for playback speed and looping<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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\r\nSeam Carving for content aware image resizing<\/a>\r\n

Aslak Grinsted<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Illustrative example of the seam carving<\/a> algorithm<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nAxis_Prunelabels<\/a>\r\n

Gautam Vallabha<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Minimizes redundant axis labels in a grid of subplots<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nFormat Tick Labels<\/a>\r\n

Alexander Hayes<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Replace Tick Label with Specified Formattable Objects<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n LOGIN<\/a>\r\n

Jeremy Smith<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Login dialog with asterisk-hidden password <\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSend Text Message to Cell Phone<\/a>\r\n

Ke Feng<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Send text message to cell phone or other mobile devices<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nTxtMsg Create<\/a>\r\n

Robert M. Flight<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A GUI that generates a function useful for sending text messages from MATLAB<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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