Training - Courses

Objectives:

• Obtain a quick overview of The MathWorks and MATLAB
• Discuss course set-up, materials, and logistics
• Provide a “big picture” view of the course ahead

Objective: Data files come in many formats, from spreadsheets to plain text. This first section of the course dissects the many facets of reading files of various types and formats. Emphasis is given to irregular text files, which contain a mixture of data types, delimiters, and headers.

• File types and formats
• Interactive import methods
• Programmatic import methods
• Low-level import methods
• Importing a mixture of data types from text files using textscan
• Large data sets and irregular formats
• Batch import tasks

Objective: There are many ways to store data in the MATLAB environment. This section explores the tradeoffs involved in choosing an appropriate data type, highlighting the built in data types of cell arrays and structures. Additionally, this section demonstrates some of the common techniques for organizing and processing data.

• Cell arrays
• Set operations
• Function handles
• Applying functions to an array
• Structure arrays
• Extracting and aggregating data
• Finding and counting

Objective: A good visualization can effectively communicate the results of an analysis. Using the plotting capabilities of MATLAB, this section aims to investigate many different techniques for presenting data. Highlighted are techniques for annotating and modifying standard plots into publication-quality graphics.

• Choosing a plot type
• Using color
• Customizing plots
• Handle Graphics®
• Common plot applications
• Creating animations
• Writing user-defined plot functions

Objective: A final stage of the of a successful data analysis includes the publication of results. Whether publishing a presentation, a report, or a simple text file for further analysis, this section will help in outputting results in various formats. Additional guidance in publishing to various graphical formats is also a feature of this section.

• Writing numeric data to text files
• Writing a mixture of data types to text files
• Saving data to other file formats
• Exporting and printing graphics
• Saving animations
• Publishing