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Animation is an effective way to display the changes in your data. MATLAB is already capable of creating a variety of 2D and 3D plots, but using animation introduces another dimension to your data visualization.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to [...]

“He who would trade liberty for security, deserves neither liberty nor security.” –Benjamin Franklin
Image and Quote via Digg
The Question
Unfortunately our friends Alice and Bob have unknowingly traded their liberty away and are being fenced inside a rectangular pieces of land on the planet Earth, which is assumed to be a perfect sphere of [...]

MMM #30 Winner

The winner for this edition of MMM is Ingmar Dasseville. Everyone was able to show that there is no way to place the bath tiles I have. Perhaps the problem was too easy and too similar to a classic chess problem. Thanks for everyone who submitted! One of the good explanation [...]

The top map is voting patterns in the 2008 election– the bottom map is cotton production in 1860… Image Courtesy of Pin the Tail
Is there something fishy here? Whether or not you agree with the correlation you see, this data visualization presented a new perspective in looking at the data. As Edward Tufte writes:
“At their [...]