Free MATLAB seminar March 25 Published March 17, 2015 By Lt. Col. Timothy Jorris EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- MathWorks is sponsoring a free MATLAB seminar open to all base personnel March 25. A morning and afternoon session will be presented in the classrooms at Oasis Community Center. The seminar is intended for all engineers and data analysts interested in learning more about the capabilities of MATLAB. In addition to the group seminars below, individual meetings can be scheduled throughout the day March 26, which will be held at the same location. Lt. Col. Tim Jorris, 412th Operations Group Hypersonic Combined Test Force director, is the base POC organizing the seminar and meetings; please contact him at 661-277-8924 or email timothy.jorris@us.af.mil to schedule a meeting with MathWorks March 26. The session agendas are below: March 25, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Data Analysis and Managing Large Datasets This session will touch on what is new with MATLAB R2014b and R2015a. The most recent releases have also seen the introduction of new fundamental data types in MATLAB for tabular data, dates and times and MATLAB R2014b saw the release of the new MATLAB graphics. We will be using all of these in context of how to "Tackle Big Data." - How to get your data in and out of MATLAB - Managing your data in MATLAB and best practices for memory use - Accessing data in large text files, MATLAB data files (.mat), and databases - Leveraging distributed memory to work with large data sets - Visualizing your data in MATLAB - Developing algorithms on your desktop and scaling to a cluster or cloud March 25, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Graphics and Publication MATLAB R2014b saw the release of the new MATLAB graphics. The final session will focus on visualizing data, viewing images and manipulating graphics in MATLAB. This session will explore techniques for customizing graphical displays, generating animations and creating publication quality graphics. Approaches to working with and displaying large data sets and images, along with discussions on data importing, block-processing and re-sampling, will also be presented. Finally, investigating the visualization of higher-dimension data, with a focus on volumetric slicing and vector fields. Highlights Include: - Introduction to Handle Graphics - Customizing Graphics for Publication - Creating Animation - Analysis of Large Data and Imagery - Techniques for Higher-Dimension Visualization