I have liked cryptography since I was sending Caesar cipher messages to my fellow 6th graders. The essence of that was to ‘add’ a value to each letter of your message. With Caesar, it… read more >>
I commonly am asked how to learn MATLAB. Here are common questions and answers. What MATLAB books or MATLAB tutorials should I use? I am, of course biased on this. I think this blog is a… read more >>
This video shows how to put an individual text label on each of a series of points. This video also shows a simple technique for understanding lines of code where there are many functions… read more >>
Cody is one of my favorite ways of learning MATLAB. I have recently created a problem in Cody where you are to solve addition problems of this puzzle style: W A I T + A L L … read more >>
Knowing what visualizations of your data are useful is half the challenge. We recently added a plot type gallery to our website. It allows you to see many different MATLAB graphics at once. Find… read more >>
I teach the introduction to MATLAB classes for all new hires in the Technical Support group at MathWorks. One of the attendees wanted to know how to do a moving average in MATLAB. This can be… read more >>
The MATLAB programming contest team has released six Cody problems today. These should be interesting in their own right, but those of you that want a head start on the programming contest that… read more >>
It is very common to read through all the values in an Excel spreadsheet to process them in MATLAB. Here is a simple example of importing Excel in MATLAB and looping through the values. if… read more >>
There are three new functions for regression in the 2012a release of MATLAB. I am not an expert in this area, but Richard is. Enjoy his video about these capabilities. if… read more >>
The new release of MATLAB is here! I was looking through it, and one thing that caught my eye the most was some face detection algorithms have been added. This is great because I get questions… read more >>