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"John D'Errico" said:
> I hope it was a joke. 

No, the latest contest is not a joke. 

We're genuinely interested in seeing the insights that people will mine from the provided data set, and we think seeing how other people use MATLAB for the purpose of data visualization is a reasonable use of the File Exchange.

We hope it will result in the submission of some new files for the period of one week, and we look forward to learning from them. If you don't find these files interesting, you are welcome to skip past them. In any event, submissions for the contest will close on April 8th, less than a week from now.

Beyond all this, however, there is clearly a question hanging in the air: what constitutes appropriate use of the File Exchange? I'd like to move that discussion to another thread so we can continue to talk about the contest here.

For more discussion on that topic see 

  http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/248182