MATLAB

MATLAB

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
MATLAB	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	MatLab is a predictive analytics and computing platform based on a proprietary programming language. MatLab is used across industry and academia.	$49 per student license

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MATLAB

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Student: $49
per student license
Student: $49
per student suite license
Home: $149
perpetual license
Education: $250
per year
Education: $500
perpetual license
Standard: $860
per year
Standard: 2,150
perpetual license

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MATLAB
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	MATLAB
Considered Both Products	MATLAB Saransh Dikshit Graduate Research Assistant Chose MATLAB I have not used any other products like MATLAB. I have used this software for almost ten years now and it hasnt let me down. I want to learn new open source coding platforms but for now MATLAB serves all my needs and purposes. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose MATLAB Those are expensive than MATLAB and their GUI is not great along with editor. However, they have more libraries set as compared to Matlab. However, the place where MATLAB adds value is its user community as well as its support and we can find solutions to any problem with … Incentivized Helpful? Morteza Banagar Research Assistant Chose MATLAB Apart from Matlab, I used Matematica for some of my integral evaluations. Mathematica is also a "clean" and easy-to-use software that solves symbolic math problems (even better than Matlab for symbolic math). I also used Anaconda and Spyder for my career so far. Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Grudowski Product Development Engineer Chose MATLAB MATLAB is easier to use than a program like LabVIEW. What LabVIEW lacks in simplicity, however; it makes up for in functionality. There are many programs that can do a lot more than MATLAB can. That being said, if you are looking for the easiest and most convenient way to … Incentivized Helpful? Carol Victor Nanotechnology Research Laboratory Assistant Chose MATLAB I haven't used any other products. Incentivized Helpful? Ryan McGarry Vice President of Research, Neuroscientist Chose MATLAB MATLAB's neurophysiological data pre-processing third-party packages are more scientifically validated compared to support for other software platforms. It also allows for writing code with a greater level of functionality and more capabilities than R-Studio, which is instead … Incentivized Helpful? Alejandro Daniel Copati Desarrollador Chose MATLAB I selected MATLAB against the other programs because it has a very powerful console and a very simple way to program functions and scripts, instead of having to make a whole project and loose a lot of time performing things that MATLAB make ir for you. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose MATLAB The commands and coding language of MATLAB reads a lot more in plain English as opposed to all the periods and other special characters that are needed when typing in Python or Java. Additionally MATLAB has several different function packages that can solve all different … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose MATLAB Python with scientific tool is useful and much less expensive. However it is somewhat harder to learn and use than [MATLAB]. Incentivized Helpful? Jeffrey Staw Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) Chose MATLAB Octave--about the same, but better support Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose MATLAB Slow for prototyping using c# and the language is not as well supported for new employee training Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose MATLAB When I am not using MATLAB, I use C # and OpenGL library. Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose MATLAB MATLAB and Python are similar in capabilities. Learning MATLAB is easier, but it is expensive, whereas Python is open-source. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose MATLAB Have used Python, Java, and R as free open source tools, but because MATLAB is available for students to use it is recommended they use this over R. This tool seems to be simpler to use and there is a wide range of tool and help materials for new concepts. Incentivized Helpful? Bernardo J Garcia Jr, CPA Joint Interest Analyst Chose MATLAB It seems MATLAB has built-in functionality that is sometimes missing in Spotfire and can only be enabled in Spotfire with additional programming language like Iron Python. Incentivized Helpful? chamika gangul Student Chose MATLAB I like MATLAB better. Helpful? Jatin Gupta Assistant Professor Chose MATLAB MATLAB provides a variety of options for development. The other tools or I can say simulators do not provide major functionalities as provided by MATLAB as it is used in many fields. This is one tool which is used for research and development purpose. It gains popularity with … Incentivized Helpful? Shelby Bowden Graduate Research Assistant Chose MATLAB MATLAB is much better at performing statistical analysis processes. It is a much more powerful program for dealing with large amounts of, or complicated, data sets. While other programs have a more friendly user interface, MATLAB is good if you have some experience with coding, … Incentivized Helpful? Jevgenijs Steinbuks Economist Chose MATLAB MATLAB has a more simple and user friendly syntax compared to its main competitors, and is perfect for solving small models, but it limits on parallelization and weak handling of nonlinear problems make it an obsolete tool for many serious economic applications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose MATLAB GNU Octave is a widely used alternative to MATLAB which is free. I use MATLAB because I've been using it since I learned how to use it in my undergraduate. Furthermore, paid applications offer more support and oftentimes, more updates than open source software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose MATLAB While not as fully featured as other software suites. MATLAB benefits from a short learning curve while still allowing teams to build robust algorithms in short amounts of time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose MATLAB For complex calculations, go with MATLAB; I can't even think of how it could be done in Tableau. But if one is not familiar with scripting and only wants to visualize data with minimal wrangling, Tableau will work just fine and comes back with graphics comparable or even better … Incentivized Helpful? Abdullah Umair Bajwa Graduate Researcher Chose MATLAB MatLab is better than Phython in terms of robustness of its tools, help library, online community, library of tools, ease of programming (simpler and more intuitive syntax), ease of installation and after sale service. These are really significant advantages and they are the … Incentivized Helpful? Juan Carlos Molina Castejón Research Team for the development of a CubeSAT Chose MATLAB How MATLAB compares to its competition or similar open access tools like R (programming language) or SciLab is that it's simply more powerful and capable. It embraces a wider spectrum of possibilities for far more fields than any other environment. R, for example, is intended … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose MATLAB Every product has its own advantages and disadvantages. MATLAB is one which can be understood easily and fast and so that would be a reason to select it. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro User friendly Pro Easy to use Pro Easy to learn
Top Cons	Minus Open source Minus Error messages Minus Difficult to work

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User Ratings
	MATLAB
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (53 ratings)
Usability	9.9 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	9.5 (7 ratings)

User Testimonials
	MATLAB
Likelihood to Recommend	MathWorks MATLAB really does best for solving computational problems in math and engineering. Especially when you have to use a lot of functions in your solving process, or if you have a nonlinear equation that must be iteratively solved. [MATLAB] can also perform things like integration and derivation on your equations that you put into it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	MathWorks It has a very user friendly library which helps users learn this software fairly quickly in a short span of time. The graphical user interface provided by the software is really good. The code that a person writes allows options for debugging. One can visualize the flow of control of their code inside MATLAB. Incentivized Saransh Dikshit Graduate Research Assistant Read full review
Cons	MathWorks MatLab is pricier than most of its competitors and because of this reason, many organizations are moving towards cheaper alternatives - mostly Python. MatLab is inefficient when it comes to performing a large number of iterations. It gets laggy and often crashes. Python is better in this regard. There is a limited number of hardware options (mostly NI) that can be connected directly to the data acquisition toolbox. Incentivized Abdullah Umair Bajwa Graduate Researcher Read full review
Usability	MathWorks MATLAB is pretty easy to use. You can extend its capabilities using the programming interface. Very flexible capabilities when it comes to graphical presentation of your data (so many different kinds of options for your plotting needs). Anytime you are working with large data sets, or with matrices, MATLAB is likely to be very helpful. Incentivized TR Tom Reid Asst. Prof. of Mathematics Read full review
Support Rating	MathWorks The built-in search engine is not as performing as I wish it would be. However, the YouTube channel has a vast library of informative video that can help understanding the software. Also, many other software have a nice bridge into MATLAB, which makes it very versatile. Overall, the support for MATLAB is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	MathWorks How MATLAB compares to its competition or similar open access tools like R (programming language) or SciLab is that it's simply more powerful and capable. It embraces a wider spectrum of possibilities for far more fields than any other environment. R, for example, is intended primarily for the area of statistical computing. SciLab, on the other hand, is a similar open access tool that falls very short in its computing capabilities. It's much slower when running larger scripts and isn't documented or supported nearly as well as MATLAB. Incentivized Juan Carlos Molina Castejón Research Team for the development of a CubeSAT Read full review
Return on Investment	MathWorks MATLAB helps us quickly sort through large sets of data because we keep the same script each time we run an analyzation, making it very efficient to run this whole process. The software makes it super easy for us to create plots that we can then show to investors or clients to display our data. We are also looking to create an app for our product, and we will not be able to do that on MATLAB, therefore creating a limiting issue and a new learning curve for a programming language. Incentivized Tyler Grudowski Product Development Engineer Read full review
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