This session provides a hands-on tutorial on scientific visualization in MATLAB. Building on the general principles from the earlier session on how to make effective plots, it covers how to make a point visually, how to communicate data with a figure, and how to do all of the above in MATLAB. The session is appropriate for intermediate or more expert audiences alike who want to learn best practices for making scientific computation and visualization more seamless, effective, and reproducible within the MATLAB environment.
Participants will leave with a more firm grasp on best practices for data visualization and their implementation in MATLAB.
Participants should have prior experience programming in MATLAB and understand its basics – this session is not appropriate for people who have never used MATLAB. Links to resources covering absolute MATLAB basics can be found here. At a minimum, participants in this session should be familiar with the material covered in the MATLAB OnRamp, a 2-hour self-paced online starter course from MathWorks (the makers of MATLAB).
Participants should have MATLAB installed on their laptops in order to follow along with the hands-on exercises.
Alternately, participants who prefer to run MATLAB remotely on one of Princeton’s systems can do so via the “myadroit” web interface to the Adroit cluster. To do so, you should first register for an account on Adroit, as described in the advance setup guide for PICSciE virtual workshops. Then, connect to “myadroit” and start a MATLAB session, as described here.
Presentation, demo, and hands-on
All presentation materials are here (beginning on Slide 19).
A recording of the session is here (requires active Princeton NetID to view).