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What would increase usage of MATLAB in the professional (scientific/industrial, non-student) world?
More advertising or sympos. exhibit
3%
More media mentions (news segments)
3%
Adjust pricing
59%
Sponsor research & publications
11%
Boost university involvement
21%
Something else (list in comments)
4%
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matlab should be supported for personal home version use in China and The price should be in line with Chinese economic conditions，This is a huge market
Matlab should be free for non-commercial use!
This way people become familiar with the product and also use it professionally.
We are a small company and I am the only (not-fulltime ..) programmer. So, I am in need of professional, reliable SW to minimize the waste of time by some stupid bug fixing. That's why I prefer matlab over python. However, with the recent "explosion" of toolboxes (with a sometimes annoying distribution of functionalities) and each a minimum of 1k bugs (plus annual subscription fees), things become too expensive for us. Several of our customers started moving to python, so, at the moment, I feel like being undefinite about what to do in the future. Here, a change in policy would help a lot, a further increase in diversity and pricing will surely kick me out, sorry.
Publication to universities within G20 country-below scope (ASEAN will be good), with some discounts for matlab and certification, so indirectly some companies will look up more about useing the apps.
From a neuroscience perspective:
People often say that Python makes sharing research code easier / more accessible to a wider audience, but this is only true in some ways. Getting research code shared in the form of Python packages to ACTUALLY WORK can be a struggle. Also, documentation of Python packages in other languages than English is often spotty.
So if I were advertising MatLab to researchers, I'd say "MATLAB: It just works."
Thank you Alexander for sharing this perspective. It's great to hear how you're seeing the MATLAB packaging and documentation helps to broaden access in neuroscience.
I'm focused here on supporting neuroscience users and use cases. Always love to hear what's working well and I have an equal appetite to know anything users think could be better. Just reached out separately in case you ever want to DM your observations or ideas.
Offering free courses to the corporate world would help a lot. After all, there are many of us engineers who had our Masters degrees before MATLAB was invented, plus, as other have mentioned, the engineers who graduated from schools where it wasn't offered.
We are making good progress with this:
- There are a bunch of free ~2-hour self-paced interactive Onramps: https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com
- Companies and individuals can get subscriptions that give access to all online courses: https://www.mathworks.com/products/online-training-suite.html
- There are free courses available through Coursera, edX and others, such as the new MATLAB Essentials course.
hth!
Boosting University involvement is necessary in developing countries like India. In most Indian Universities majority of the engineering students do not use MATLAB for designing their projects. Most of them do not even have an idea how much MATLAB can help in their projects.
IIT's, NIT's and reputed colleges have MATLAB license and students use it.
My most I meant universities below tier 1.
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XPath/ XQuerywould be surprised to learn that they are not programming languages.
MATLAB is very popular in both industy and academia but when it comes to reseaearch projects in instatitutins and colleges, even though MATLAB consists of wide variety of tools, the students and faculties generally prefer Open sourced softwares, because its generally harder to obtain genuine licence for MATLAB because of its pricing. If there was certain level of open source aspect to MATLAB or lowered pricing then by my estimate the usage of MATLAB in industry and scienifc research would shoot up drastically.
Properly reduce the price of the software is conducive to the benign and sustainable development of the software, I am a personal fan of more than 10 years, living in China, for commercial use offer, it is too expensive, so I want to use the home version, but why has not supported matlab China home version to buy? I hope TMW will consider the purchasing power of ordinary Chinese people!
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