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What is MATLAB?

MatLab is a predictive analytics and computing platform based on a proprietary programming language. MatLab is used across industry and academia.

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MATLAB- Fantastic program for visualizing data and complex modelling.

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 2, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I have been using MATLAB for quite a long time and we use it quite frequently at Broward. It is constantly used within our research groups and by quite a lot of undergrad and ...
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Doyle Reynolds
Employee - Research & Development
Adjunct Mathematics Instructor
Broward College
MATLAB4 years of experience

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Rating: 8 out of 10
July 12, 2021
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I have been using MATLAB for almost all of my academic stuff. I use it for solving my homework and completing my research. I have used it to do data processing and filtering. ...
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Saransh Dikshit
Employee - Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
Iowa State University
MATLAB10 years of experience

MATLAB - a simple, powerful data analysis tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 7, 2021
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We use MATLAB for a variety of different functions at NoMo Diagnostics. We do a ton of data analyzation using the software, where we take huge amounts of data and run them thr...
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Tyler Grudowski
Engineer - Engineering
Product Development Engineer
NoMo Diagnostics
MATLAB2 years of experience

MATLAB, The Great

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 26, 2021
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I use MATLAB mainly to develop GUI and scripts to control our electronic products. I also used MATLAB in the University to solve Mathematics and Electronics problems. In the c...
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Alejandro Daniel Copati
Engineer - Engineering
Desarrollador
Xavia IOT
MATLAB5 years of experience

MATLAB - great tool for Mathematicians and Engineers

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 9, 2021
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I use MATLAB in many of my courses. Currently, I am using it in an advanced math modeling course (to solve systems of differential equations) and in an advanced mathematical s...
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Tom Reid
Professional - Other
Asst. Prof. of Mathematics
University of South Carolina Aiken
MATLAB5 years of experience
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Product Demos

Matlab Filtering Demo Part 1

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MATLAB Profiler Demo

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(SSP 1.1.6) Principle of Maximum Likelihood Estimation: Matlab Demo

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Lecture 02 Part 5: Finite Difference for Heat Equation Matlab Demo, 2016 Numerical Methods for PDE

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Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
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Frequently Asked Questions

MatLab is a predictive analytics and computing platform based on a proprietary programming language. MatLab is used across industry and academia.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of MATLAB are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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MATLAB- Fantastic program for visualizing data and complex modelling.

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 02, 2022
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Doyle Reynolds
Adjunct Mathematics Instructor
Broward College (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MATLAB
4 years of experience
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Pros
  • MATLAB is great at providing in-depth models and simulations with very little coding, this is particularly useful to non-coders and potential data scientists who know very little or basic understanding of coding languages. The drag and drop components of the software are ideal and its simplicity allows the user to really understand the math behind the simulations running.
  • It is fantastic for visualizing data, without being able to properly visualize data is almost useless, MATLAB allows the users to quickly dissect and understand how different data sets affect different variables and so forth.
  • It has a wide range of supportive documentation and the online community is very active and engaged. If you ever have any problems, you can always count on someone being there to help you understand what is going on.
Cons
  • I believe the software is quite expensive, so it is not open to independent parties which is a shame as it is fantastic at what it does, if they could find a way to include independent people rather than mass groups, I think it would really benefit a lot of people.
  • The responsiveness of the software is not always the best and this can be very hindering to the user, especially when working with sensitive data/models.
  • MATLAB is inefficient in some of its works and sometimes it is not the best tool for the job, there are times when it is quicker to write scripts in Python that run and work much better than they would ever do in MATLAB.

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Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 12, 2021
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Saransh Dikshit
Graduate Research Assistant
Iowa State University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees)
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Verified User
MATLAB
10 years of experience
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Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • I would want for the library to get updated more regularly.
  • MATLAB uses a lot of computer memory for running heavy simulations. Its performance could certainly be optimized.
  • Apart from this, I think MATLAB is a very powerful software and helps in almost every scenario of engineering.

MATLAB - a simple, powerful data analysis tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 07, 2021
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Tyler Grudowski
Product Development Engineer
NoMo Diagnostics (Medical Devices, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MATLAB
2 years of experience
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Pros
  • MATLAB is very good at helping me create files that I can share anywhere and with anyone. It allows me to write a script and then share it with people so they can open it on the notepad app on their Mac or PC.
  • I like that MATLAB can be used on both Mac and PC. I prefer to use a Mac when doing work, so it's nice that you can obtain the software for either operating system, and then work seamlessly between the two.
  • MATLAB's help network is extremely vast. Inside the manual, you can find pretty much any function that you could possibly need to use.
Cons
  • I wish it was easier to go through the help manual to find what you need. If you know the keyword that you need to use, it's very easy to just type that in to the program and it will take you to the proper spot. If you don't know the keyword, it is extremely hard to find what you are looking for sometimes.
  • The program itself is not very intuitive for first-time users. Once you get used to the software, it is much more straightforward, but it is hard to just pick it up and begin to use MATLAB.
  • Because MATLAB is more of a mathematics and engineering help software, you cannot write a ton of in-depth code using it. If you are looking to develop a whole application for a tablet or something of the like, you need to learn another language.

MATLAB, The Great

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 26, 2021
Pros
  • Very powerful console. You can do anything directly through the MATLAB console with no need to write a whole C/C++ program to do simple things.
  • Ease of creating a simple and intuitive GUI with a very powerful wizard.
  • A lot of professional packages and toolboxes for complex problems resolutions. Like Signal Processing, Image Processing, Calculus, etc.
  • The language of programing is like a very nice version of C/C++.
  • The handling of the variables is all making for MATLAB, you don't need to pay attention if you are using more memory that you have, for write one example. MATLAB take care of your stuff and optimize it.
Cons
  • When a GUI start to grow up and have many objects, the performance of it starts to decrease very quickly and start to crash sometimes.
  • You can not have more than one function in each file. I mean, you can't make a sort of library in one .m file. If you have different functions, you have to have different files.
  • I think that a very good improvement is that MATLAB can understand the C/C++ sentence and data types. I mean, if I have an array of hexadecimal values in C/C++, I can't copy that in MATLAB because I can't use "0xA4" for the A4 hex value, for example.

MATLAB - great tool for Mathematicians and Engineers

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 09, 2021
TR
Tom Reid
Asst. Prof. of Mathematics
University of South Carolina Aiken (Higher Education, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MATLAB
5 years of experience
Pros
  • Matrix operations
  • Numerical methods
  • Plotting
Cons
  • A bit of a learning curve, especially for those just learning to program
  • Error messages could be more informative
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