MATLAB

MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.

Desktop:

• Projects: Organize, manage, and share your work using projects
• Live Editor Controls: Add check boxes, edit fields, and buttons to control variable values and specify what code will run when a value changes
• Live Editor:
• Hide code when sharing and exporting live scripts
• Automatically refactor selected code into a function
• Live Editor Export: Save live scripts and functions as Microsoft Word documents
• Live Editor Output:
• Enable animations in plots to show changes in data over time
• Clean categorical data, filter datetimes, and change variable data types in table output interactively
• MATLAB Online: Share folders with a view-only link or invite individuals with view-only or edit permissions
• Toolbox Packaging: Install required add-ons with custom toolboxes

Graphics:

• parallelplot Function: Visualize tabular or matrix data with multiple columns by using a parallel coordinates plot
• Data Tips: Pin and customize data tips in charts
• Axes Interactions:
• Customize chart interaction gestures such as dragging to pan, or scrolling to zoom
• Pan data by dragging the x, y or z axis without having to use the pan tool
• Property Inspector: Control visibility of graphics objects interactively
• Graphics Export: Export axes with tighter cropping using the axes toolbar

App Building:

• App Designer:
• Create two and three panel apps that automatically resize and reflow contebased on device size
• Add and configure a grid layout manager on the App Designer canvas
• uiimage Function: Display an icon, logo, or image in apps and on the App Designer canvas
• uitable Function: Use table arrays for faster rendering of data and to sort tables interactively
• Auto Resize: Automatically resize components when an app is made smaller than its default size.
• Graphics Support: Explore data using axes toolbar and data tips in apps created with the uifigure function
• MATLAB Online: Create and edit App Designer apps using MATLAB Online

Data Import and Export:

• Datatype I/O: Use dedicated functions for reading and writing matrices, cell arrays, and timetables
• Parquet file support: Read and write single or large collections of Parquet files
• FileDatastore Object: Read large files by importing the file in smaller portions
• Custom Datastore: Read from Hadoop based databases using the custom datastore framework
• Datastores:
• Manage read errors when importing data from large collections of files
• Combine and transform datastores
• thingSpeakRead and thingSpeakWrite Functions: Read or write data to the ThingSpeak IoT platform
• writetable and imwrite Functions: Write to web-based storage services like Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage

Hardware:

• MATLAB Support Package for Parrot Drones: Control Parrot Mambo FPV drones and acquire sensor and image data
• Android Sensors: Acquire images from your mobile device camera in MATLAB Mobile
• Raspberry Pi: Build standalone applications for communicating with Raspberry Pi hardware from a desktop computer

Data Analysis:

• xcorr and xcov Functions: Compute cross-correlation and cross-covariance
• detrend Function: Remove piecewise polynomial trends, set continuity requirements, and specify sample points
• groupcounts Function: Count the number of group elements for arrays, tables, and timetables
• grouptransform Function: Transform array data by group
• tall Arrays: Write custom sliding window algorithms to operate on tall arrays
• tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including groupcounts, intersect, and svd
• filloutliers, isoutlier, and rmoutliers Functions: Detect outliers using percentiles

Performance:

• sortrows Function: Sort rows of large matrices faster

Advanced Software Development:

• C++ interface: Use classes and functions from C++ libraries in MATLAB
• C++ MEX: Execute MEX function out-of-process
• MException class: Provide a suggested fix for an uncaught exception
• Unit Testing Framework: Display code coverage metrics in HTML format