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Choosing a visualization in MATLAB

Posted by Doug Hull, April 26, 2012

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 >>

Category:: Level: Basic

Using convolution to smooth data with a moving average in MATLAB 5

Posted by Doug Hull, April 17, 2012

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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 >>

Category:: Format: Video,; Level: Basic

Cody problems and programming contest preview?

Posted by Doug Hull, April 3, 2012

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 >>

MATLAB Tutorial, processing an Excel file in MATLAB 28

Posted by Doug Hull, March 28, 2012

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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 >>

Category:: Format: Video,; Level: Basic,; Topic: Excel

Regression in MATLAB

Posted by Doug Hull, March 16, 2012

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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 >>

MATLAB 2012a: Face detection 8

Posted by Doug Hull, March 9, 2012

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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 >>

Category:: Format: Video

Piecewise linear curve fitting 15

Posted by Doug Hull, March 2, 2012

This week, I am getting back to my blogging roots and I want to highlight (and thank) John D’errico for a great file Exchange submission. That file is Shape Language… read more >>

Cody challenges added: Poker Series 7

Posted by Doug Hull, February 23, 2012

Cody is a great way to learn MATLAB. Recently, a new series of problems have been added. This series of problems will be excellent for people that are new to MATLAB to solve. There are 11… read more >>

Highlighting solutions to Project Euler problems 001-005 4

Posted by Doug Hull, February 14, 2012

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I’ve been excited by the great response to the Project Euler problems that I’ve posted on Cody. This video takes a look at my favorite submission for each of the first five problems. Take a look… read more >>

Category:: Format: Video,; Level: Basic

Project Euler on Cody 1

Posted by Doug Hull, February 3, 2012

I am a big fan of Project Euler. There are a series of math and programming problems there that people often use in honing their programming skills. Traditionally, there is one correct integer… read more >>

Category:: Level: Advanced,; Level: Basic,; Topic: Puzzler