(17/7/2015)
I am an experienced user of Matlab - a high-level language and interactive environment for rapid scripting and algorithm testing (at least that was how I have used Matlab all the while for the past 10 years).
A few weeks ago, I was notified about a webinar from Mathworks (the company that developed Matlab) on the topic of Data Analysis. The advertisement caught my attention with the following short description: "Using Data Analytics to turn large volumes of complex data into actionable information can help you improve engineering design and decision-making processes... and so on"
So I signed-up the seminar, and wow! I have actually learned some new and interesting techniques from it. It was a short 1-hour session, but the pain is the time difference between my local zone and the organizer's zone in the United State (for me that was some time in the midnight).
Let's get back to the topic, so I have got a chance to learn techniques for exploring, visualizing and combining complex multivariate data sets, which I don't normally perform using Matlab. Another technique which could be closer to my current research project is prototyping and testing predictive models using machine learning methods. This is something advance and new to me, and to pick up the skill is luckily not that hard. To conclude, this was a really useful online seminar, at least technically.
PS: Following this, I have signed-up for more webinars from Mathworks. More to come in my next post.
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