{"id":483,"date":"2011-01-07T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2011\/01\/07\/making-test-data-in-matlab\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T16:06:06","slug":"making-test-data-in-matlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2011\/01\/07\/making-test-data-in-matlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Making test data in MATLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"Many times when trying to test an algorithm or understand code written by someone else, it is beneficial to run the code with data you understand already.  For that purpose, I have several standard types of data that I can quickly load or synthesize.  I know that these datasets do not have NaN, Inf, or any other entries that often wreck algorithms that do not need to handle them.\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877437031001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2011\/01\/07\/making-test-data-in-matlab\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/27aa8741-3dca-493c-acca-88f73acba005\/86dc0567-5bd1-4f7c-881c-b5014c2f449f\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">5:59<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>Many times when trying to test an algorithm or understand code written by someone else, it is beneficial to run the code with data you understand already.  For that purpose, I have several standard&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2011\/01\/07\/making-test-data-in-matlab\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}