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If you are interested in developing algorithms for robotics and autonomous systems using ROS, there is an upcoming livestream just for you.
In this livestream, Jose Avendano Arbelaez and Ronal George will show you how to build and deploy autonomous algorithms using ROS. Using examples, they will show how to interface with ROS networks using publishers and subscribers, build algorithms for mapping, planning and navigation and deploying algorithms as ROS nodes.
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Congratulations, @Karim for winning the 1st ever Editor's Pick badge awarded for MATLAB Answers, in recoginition of your awesome solution in How to find X and Y coordinates of maximum gap between curves?
This is a new badge we just introduced to recognize awesome answers people contribute and yours was picked for discovering a creative way to solve the problem, and made the solution clear, and reproducible. Thank you so much for setting a high standard for MATLAB Answers and for your ongoing contribution to the community.
MATLAB Central Team
Congratulations, @Matt J for reaching this major milestone!
You provided 9717 answers at the acceptance rate of 75.23% and received 3281 votes. Thank you for your contribution to the community!
MATLAB Central Team
Watch live as Brandon Armstrong and Cris LaPierre import, visualize, and compute statistics without writing code in MATLAB.
The first challenge when starting a new project is importing and exploring the data to determine what it contains. This is especially true if your files contain a mix of numeric, text, and categorical data.
MATLAB has many new tools to simplify this process. Using app-based workflows enable you to spend more time investigating and exploring your data and less time troubleshooting code. Importantly, the code required to repeat your analysis is auto-generated so you can apply the same steps to new files and have others reproduce your work.
Date: 8/25 at 11am EDT - View in your timezone
In MATLAB Answers, oftentimes we see good comments that provide solutions in a question thread. Those comments should really be answers. On the other hand, there are some answers that do not offer solutions. Those answers should actually be comments. The answer/comment issue makes it harder for readers of a question thread to quickly identify useful information. To tackle this issue, the community team just released the MOVE feature!
What can be moved?
Answers and comments can now be moved in 4 ways within the same question thread:
  1. Change an answer to a comment
  2. Change an answer with comments to a group of comments
  3. Change a comment to an answer
  4. Move a comment
Who can move answers and comments?
New privileges have been awarded to contributors with 2000 reputation points or more. Privileged contributors will see move icons added in the list of actions available for answers and comments.
After an answer or comment is moved, an indication of the move will be displayed with the content.
As always, please let us know your thoughts by leaving a reply below.
Never, I don't typically share code
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Never, even when my code is shared
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Occasionally
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Sometimes
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More often than not
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Always or almost always
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8896 votes
Leave your MATLAB computer at home
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Bring computer but don't use MATLAB
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Bring computer and use MATLAB
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Bring phone and use MATLAB online
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Use MATLAB on someone else's comput
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Vacation? What's that?
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18554 votes
Join us on a upcoming live to learn about how the deep learning frameworks in MATLAB and Simulink can be used with TensorFlow and PyTorch to provide enhanced capabilities for building and training your Machine Learning model.
Watch this preview to learn more. https://youtu.be/ZPQgcFPCFZM
MATLAB (& Mathworks toolboxes) only
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Simulink only
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Both MATLAB & Simulink
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MATLAB & third party toolboxes
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Simulink & third party toolboxes
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Both ML & SL & 3rd party toolboxes
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1043 votes
Yes, if they have what I want.
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No, probably not.
59%
1437 votes
T-shirt
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Cap/hat
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Backpack, bag, satchel
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Logo sticker
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Mouse pad
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Other (tool, toy, Rubik's, etc.)
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1592 votes
Join us live on May 26 at 11am for another Livestream Event on YouTube.
We welcome Brian Buechel and Nikola Trica as this week's guests. They will analyze experimental data to quantify the ride quality of a car suspension in MATLAB. They'll work with signals recorded from a car suspension, analyze the data, and visualize the results. At the end, we'll have a shareable report containing code and formatted text that clearly communicates our findings.
Watch the event live or the recording on YouTube. We welcome your questions during the event and let us know what other topics that you are interested in seeing.
More advertising or sympos. exhibit
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More media mentions (news segments)
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Adjust pricing
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Sponsor research & publications
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Boost university involvement
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Something else (list in comments)
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1076 votes
When discussing Q&As in MATLAB Answers, we oftentimes need to reference a function in MATLAB Documentation. The process is quite tedious. You need to search the function in Documentation and copy & paste it into Answers. Now, you can simply use the ‘@doc:’ in Answers’ editor to easily reference a function in Documentation.
How does it work?
1) Simply type ‘@’ and you will see the option to add a Doc link. You can also directly type ‘@doc:’.
2) Start typing the function name. You will see a list of choices on the menu.
3)Select the function and a hyperlink to that function's doc page will be automatically inserted.
Give it a try and we hope you like it! Leave a comment if you have any questions or suggestions.
I'd definitely attend/participate.
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I would probably attend.
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I might or might not attend.
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I would not be interested.
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1271 votes
Today, I'm spotlighting Bruno Luong, our newest MVP. Next, let's 'talk about Bruno'!
When we look at Bruno's stats chart below, we'll notice Bruno achieved this major milestone just in 3 years! This is amazing, right? Actually, we are still underestimating Bruno's contribution to the larger MATLAB/Simulink user community by just looking at his reputation points.
Before he started his active contribution to Answers in 2019, Bruno had been a top contributor to the newsgroup for MATLAB & Simulink products – comp.soft-sys-matlab. Sounds a bit old school? Leave a comment if you have participated or are still participating in the newsgroup. I remember back in 2016 when I first chatted with Bruno, he already had about 500 posts in the newsgroup!
Besides helping users with their questions, Bruno has also been contributing high-quality files to File Exchange. Check out the two prestigious badges below. They are showing the highest recognition from both the MathWorks team and millions of community users.
Congratulations, Bruno. We really appreciate your outstanding and long-time contributions to the MATLAB/Simulink user community!



20 minutes makes a difference

I struggled to learn MATLAB at first. A colleague at my university gave me about 20 minutes of his time to show me some basic features, how to reference the documentation, and how to debug code. That was enough for me to start using MATLAB independently. After a few semesters of developing analyses and visualizations, I started answering questions in the forum when I had time. I became addicted to volunteering and learning from the breadth of analytical problems the forum exposed me to.



Have you ever solved a problem using a MathWorks product?

If your answer is YES, you may be the right person to help someone looking for guidance to solve a similar problem. Some answers in the MATLAB Central community forum maintain 1000s of views per month and some files on the File Exchange have 1000s of downloads. Volunteering a moment of your time to answer a question or to share content to the File Exchange may benefit countless individuals in the near and distant future and you will likely learn a lot by contributing too!

  • 3616 questions were asked last month in the forum and in that time, 747 volunteers answered at least one question!
  • 62% of those volunteers were first-time contributors!
  • 335 volunteer contributors shared content in the File Exchange last month!
  • 1: the number of contributions it takes to make a difference.

This week is National Volunteer Week in the USA (April 17-23). Challenge yourself and your colleagues by committing to help a stranger break barriers in their path to learning MATLAB.



How to volunteer and contribute to the MATLAB Central Community

Here are two easy ways to accept the volunteer challenge.

Contribute to the MATLAB Answers Forum

  1. Go to the MATLAB Answers repository. This page shows all unanswered questions starting with the most recent question. Use the filters on the left to see answered questions or questions belonging to a specific category. Alternatively, search for questions using keywords in the search field or visit the landing page.
  2. Open a few questions that interest you based on the question titles and tags.
  3. Decide how you'd like to contribute. Sometimes a question needs refinement or requires a bit of work to address. Decide whether to leave a comment that guides the user in the right direction, answer the question, or skip to the next question. The decision tree below is how some experienced contributors approach these decisions.

Pro tips

  • Newer questions have more traffic and are often answered within an hour or minutes.
  • Multiple answers often add valuable alternative perspectives and solutions.
  • Sometimes answers aren't accepted or the asker disappears. Be not discouraged. Your answer holds much value.



Contribute to the File Exchange

  1. Choose a function, script, demo, or toolbox you created that may be helpful to the community.
  2. Go to the MathWorks File Exchange. Search for submissions that are similar to your idea and decide whether your idea adds value.
  3. Prepare your code for open-source sharing. The best submissions include brief documentation that explains the purpose of the code, inputs, expected outputs and limitations.
  4. Use the "Publish your code" button from the link above. This will guide you through the submission process.



Make a difference

No matter what level you are at as a MATLAB developer, you have skills that others around you could benefit from learning. Take the challenge and become a giant.

Let us know about your experience with MATLAB Central volunteers or your experience becoming a MATLAB Central volunteer in the comments below!

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Don't waste time searching-just ask
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A few minutes or 1-2 searches
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A few hours, most Qs aren't unique
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Days-asking for help is last resort
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Infinite. I'll never ask a question
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23801 votes
None
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Less than what tasks demand
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Sufficient for what tasks demand
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More than sufficient
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Too much
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384 votes
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