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Its common when you are developing code to find that you want to re-use a piece of it for some new dataset or task. Instead of copying and pasting, always consider writing a function. Here is an… read more >>

23:12

I often save tables to Excel for sharing with others, but if the data is too large, I need to share to a CSV file instead. Here I build a function to do that. Features covered in this code-along… read more >>

3:54

A few weeks ago I talked about the new pause button in Release 2016a on the editor tab of the desktop. Someone asked what do you do if you want to pause your code but the editor was not open when you… read more >>

59:31

In this code-along style video I attempt to develop a script to import and analyze website page response times data, including doing some comparisons of distributions.
Features covered… read more >>

5:26

One of the many uses of variable highlighting in the MATLAB editor is to help with moving code around. When you select variables, it shows you where they are used in the rest of the code, and… read more >>

22:40

This morning I needed to debug an issue with a regularly used script. The code was converting numerical columns in a table to strings or categoricals by using a lookup table. I had a few levels of… read more >>

26:30

I’d like to be able to analyze and visualize our website but with more than 300 thousand pages and more than 20 million links, its too much information to easily digest or display. So I thought… read more >>

2:42

You can’t use isempty to detect empty strings, as you would for character arrays. Instead you should check for strlength being equal to zero or compare with an empty character vector. See the… read more >>

3:04

Each time I install a new release of MATLAB, such as 2016b recently, I turn on the editor preference “Enable data tips in edit mode”. Its not on by default. Here’s why its very… read more >>

70:01

I have a spreadsheet with a list of filenames in one column whose absolute location is defined relative to a file in another column. I want to be able to construct the absolute path for all of them… read more >>