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# Page 10 - Reviews of MATLAB

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Engineer  
Civil Engineering  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "MATLAB is the best"

January 16, 2021

5.0

As a summary, MATLAB is one of the best computer aided programme i ever used in my academic life. This helps me a lot to do my mathematical calculations and save my time. I love MATLAB so much and highly recommend to any other person without any hesitation.

Pros

MATLAB is one of the greatest software i using in my day to day works. It is computer aided language which developed to solve complex mathematical problems. The best thing about MATLAB is, it having very user friendly interface which even a new beginner can easily adopt to that software. Also thus MATLAB can used to solve our complex mathematical problems, we can save our time instead of doing manual calculations. I personally love that the way how MATLAB solving complex matrix.

Cons

Thus MATLAB is computer aided software, it needs modern computer with considerable memory to operate properly. If you have modern computer with good RAM, you can easily run the programme without any disturbance.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Analog Design Engineer  
Semiconductors  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The best software for math and computation -- hands down"

September 30, 2021

4.0

Pros

I like most how MATLAB has such a wide variety of different of mathematical operations and functions built into the tool. For example, it allows me to do derivatives, integrals, fourier transforms, laplace transforms, and much more in the tool, which is a set of functionality I cannot find anywhere else!

Cons

What I like least about MATLAB is how expensive a license for the software is. There are other tools for mathematical modelling in Python and so forth which have evolved in their complexity and are free, and I more commonly find myself turning to lower cost competing software.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Graduate Research Assistant  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Easy to solve your mathematical problems"

April 3, 2020

5.0

I always use Matlab to analyze the data, filter noises and solve mathematical problems. I found the software very helpful especially in the controls and engineering sides.

Pros

I have been using Matlab for more than ten years. It is very user-friendly. The Matlab data analysis is based on matrices. Therefore, if you are dealing with various mathematical, control, or engineering problems, Matlab is one of the best software. You can solve most of the complicated equations numerically and get the right answer. The figure section of the software is easy to work with. It gives you several options on how to plot your figures.

Cons

It is a great software. However, I think it has some bugs in the plotting section. Sometimes it bothers when you want to plot a figure with several axes.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Undergraduate Student  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "My Experience On MATLAB"

October 26, 2019

5.0

I am an undergraduate Engineering student. So in my academic works and also in my industrial presentations I have to do very accurate works. I had a problem of drawing accurate graphs to illustrate many information. Then I found this software MATLAB. I have learnt the coding well after practicing it for about one month because it is very much simple. So it is easy to learn because the mechanism is far much simple and any one can master it after some practice. So I highly recommend any one to use this MATLAB software to get very accurate graphs and you can learn the coding mechanism very quickly. Thank You

Pros

I am an undergraduate Engineering student. So I am usually use this MATLAB software in my academic works because I use this software to present many ideas or information by using graphs. MATLAB gives me very accurate graphs by doing a small and easy code which can learn with a little practice on it.

Cons

I am using MATLAB software for more than 2 years but I did not get any problem while using this software.

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FO

Felix O.  
PhD Researcher  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "A review on MATLAB: applications and functionalities"

November 13, 2022

5.0

Pros

Predefind functions and signal processing blocks.

Cons

MATLAB compiler requires higher storage or RAM to run specific programs.

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AG

Ashay G.  
Student  
Logistics and Supply Chain  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Analytical tool for your need"

April 20, 2022

5.0

The software is the right tool for processing all kinds of your data. I would recommend this product, especially to students who want to work in the field of research.

Pros

The software provides a wide range of analytical options for your data to make the right decision for your business. The software has many capabilities including logistics regression, clustering, and linear regression of the data. It can also visualize the data basis your need which will help in making a decision for your problem.

Cons

I recommend the team to improve on the layout of the software a bit because when you visualize the data it doesn't give a good vibe as compared to other products out there in the market such as power BI or tableau.

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Soham B.  
Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Matlab is one of the best for computing."

July 18, 2018

5.0

It helps me every day in my research.

Pros

There is nothing you can not do in Matlab. You can do any kind of mathematical calculation or numerical analysis in Matlab. It is also very user-friendly. Matlab is developed by MathWorks. I like their website because you literally don't need to learn Matlab from someone, you can just go to their website and you can access any command along with the appropriate example. The coding may take a while if it is complicated but once you get it running, you don't have to do anything else. You can write a code in Matlab in such a way that it can load your data from any text/Ms-excel file, run the analysis and store the results the way you want in a different text/excel file.

Cons

My only concern is graph plotting. Although you can plot any type of graphs (normal, contour, scatter) in Matlab, the quality is not quite good if you are looking to publish that. Plus, on a few occasions, I have had some struggle to understand why my code is not running because the reason shown wasn't very clear but eventually I figured it out.

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Muhammad M.  
QC Inspector  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MATLAB Review "

March 5, 2022

5.0

Satisfied experience with MATLAB since longer session.

Pros

It's very easily operate and analyse the data and compare the results in very effective and efficient way. Graphics and interface of this software is mind-blowing and provide greater results.

Cons

It's better if time to time updated the software as it's required to sustain in marketplace with other softwares.

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Rashid C.  
Teaching Assistant  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MATLAB Review"

March 10, 2021

5.0

My overall experience with this has been positive, I have used it to reinforce the link between mathematics and computer science in my classes .

Pros

MATLAB is awesome! Many of the libraries for doing statistics, machine learning and simulations. The platform has two options: web based usage or downloading the application to a PC/Mac. For high school algebra/computer science classes the online version works well. The cost for access to an entire school is $500 !! Its a great value for your money and there are many online resources to help students understand the code!

Cons

There are too many features on the main menu, this can be quite confusing to new users. The online version has severe bugs when graphing and the dowloaded version is about 24GB which takes up massive space on laptops and is almost impossible to download on chromebooks and smaller memory devices.

Switched from

[RStudio Desktop](https://www.capterra.com/p/210152/RStudio/)

More support!

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The Best Math Software on The Market "

January 31, 2019

5.0

I have used Matlab throughout my University career. It has proven to be a powerful tool that I use not only for Matlab specific assignments but in other contexts as well. After learning the syntax and UI, I am able to write programs to solve problems quickly. The amount of functionality is outstanding and external libraries mean that a program can be written in a matter of lines. An improvement would be better debugging tools and warnings for syntax that might be accidental or incorrect. Intellisense like code completion would be great too.

Pros

\-Works on MAC and PC seamlessly -Large help network and Help manual/documentation is extremely detailed and useful -Efficiently and quickly solve mathematical problems and produce publication quality figures -An incredible amount of built in functions

Cons

\-Help manual very useful but depends on knowing the the keyword. Lacks browsing features to find what you need. -Not intuitive for first time users. Takes some getting used to. -Making plots can be confusing and hard to master. -Acciddental errors are easy to make and hard to debug as warnings are not thrown for incorrect/likely wrong syntax or method calls.

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Vivek P.  
Staff Software Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Most Powerful tool for Simulation, Mathematical Modelling, Designing, Analytics and AI"

March 24, 2022

5.0

Excellent and Most Powerful tool.

Pros

Too many enhanced features useful simulation of designs, too many mathematical libraries available which help you to create your models quite accurately and simulate those design on real time scenarios. Proficient tool for AI and Analytics as well

Cons

Quite complex setup and configuration. UI is not that much user-friendly.

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PD

Pawan D.  
Student  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MATLAB review by a student perspective"

May 12, 2022

5.0

I have been using Matlab almost daily, mainly for simulations. Compared to other simulation software like PSIM and PLECS, Matlab has more multiphysics blocks and algorithms, saving a lot of time. Overall good experience. I will be using it for machine learning algorithms along with python in the future.

Pros

easy, can handle complex simulation and data analytics, easy visualization, excellent user interface, can solve complex algorithms, valid for single use or for an organization

Cons

needs a lot of computational memory of your computer, get's slower for multiphysics simulation models, usually crashes when out of memory and gets stuck for hours,

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Student  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Extremely complete and powerful tool"

May 25, 2022

5.0

Essential for technical engineering programs. Very good experience with it. It took me a while to master it at the time, but once I learned how to use it and how to do the things I wanted to, it was awesome.

Pros

I love how powerful it is, and how much you can do with it. I used it during my Electrical Engineering undergrad course and it helped me with a lot of mathematical simulations. It has lots of features, which also allowed for exporting different graphical visualization and data analyses.

Cons

I wish it was easier to use / program it. It has a steep learning curve in my opinion. However, it is extremely powerful once you learn how to use it and there's a lot of resources online for you to look at and learn quickly.

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James W.  
Software Engineer  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Software Engineering programs can easily, quickly and efficiently be solved through MATLAB software."

July 18, 2018

5.0

Pros

MATLAB software is the superb software that consists of high level technical computing languages that facilitates the software engineers and other users for simple and complex calculations. One can have graphic visualization easily through this software. No doubt a complete suite to make and design several programs.

Cons

When I talk about cons, I think one of the limitations is that in the beginning the MATLAB software runs quite slowly so that we have to reboot the program. Afterwards it works smoothly and there are lots of things inside this software.No doubt this software helped me a lot in repeating the algorithms for solving the complex problems and in the topic of optimization.

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Luis S.  
Data analyst  
Computer & Network Security  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Data cleaning with Matlab"

March 2, 2024

4.0

I have been using it since school and I feel very comfortable with it, even in the work field it is useful at times.

Pros

The best thing is its ease of use, added to the fact that there is a lot of information behind it that helps to complement its management, it turns out to be a very useful application.

Cons

The main disadvantage is that its code is not portable to other programming languages, which limits its integration and expansion of its use to only display data.

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Muzaffer Yalgin O.  
Systems Engineer, Research & Development  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "One stop software"

November 4, 2018

5.0

I like the speed of implementation of ideas and algorithms. Data processing is very easy, especially for large data sets (more than Excel can handle). I was able to use Matlab to model electrical, mechanical, thermal problems. Conduct data analysis and visualization to understand effects of operation.

Pros

The balance between versatility and ease of use of the program is unmatched. It's endless help modules are very strong and sharpens the learning curve. I use this program for many tasks. It's really streamlined for data processing and modelling applications.

Cons

I find it cumbersome to interface with hardware most of the time. It would be a great addition to improve this capability. One issue that pops up is the backwards compatibility problem. If you're working collaboratively with other and going to be passing back and forth models (Simulink) you'd need to know which version was used to transfer properly. Similar problem occurs with the use of toolboxes. Some models can be generated with toolboxes but if your collaborator doesn't have these, they won't be able to operate your modules.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Reearcher  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great Tool for Engineers"

March 12, 2022

4.0

I use MATLAB for most of my engineering problems, from matrix manipulation to a full Finite Elements Analysis. The built-in post-processing features add a nice touch to the solution.

Pros

MATLAB is the got-to software for engineering applications. With its abundance of feature it allows the users full flexibility from the problem setup to post-processing. The programming language is not hard to learn yet it is a very powerful tool.

Cons

I have been using MATLAB for 5 years and I didn't really find anything I don't like so far. I am sure there are bugs in some parts of the software that I didn't go to yet. The only thing that could be improved would be the User-Interface. Other than that, the software is a great tool overall.

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MR

Mirza R.  
Research Assistant  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MATLAB should be your go to for your programming needs"

September 24, 2020

5.0

MATLAB has been great overall. If you're a new user looking to buy it, I'd say go for it without any hesitation. It's the best once you get familiar with it. It is a very powerful toll if you're in the industry or academic research.

Pros

The main thing I love about MATLAB is the help documentation. You can literally search for anything you want to do and its there. You can google it or search it on MATLAB's website. If you've run in to an error chances are 1000s of people before you have run into the same issue before, googling it helps. There are various toolboxes available. My most used toolbox is the Image Processing Toolbox. A lot of data visualization and analysis options are also available. You can automate almost everything. I have written a code with a GUI that decides on which restaurant to eat at. People who say python is better haven't used MATALB to it's full potential.

Cons

The main downside is that MATLAB needs to make their GUI more minimalist, it's 2020 already!! The other thing that I miss is an option to add semicolon automatically after every line. It gets annoying when you miss a semicolon.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Senior AI Engineer  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Easy to Use but Hard to Customize"

April 29, 2021

5.0

As an engineer, I often use MATLAB with it's tools. Generally, it's performance seem fair as long as the model is not relatively big. Sometimes documentations are not descriptive enough and this becomes a real pain from an user's perspective. Except from these open points, my overall experience with MATLAB can be described as 'satisfying'.

Pros

The biggest pros from my perspective of point is that it's very easy to use and most of the daily tasks including visualizations, raw-data processing and modeling (if it's not a big model) are very straight-forward to do.

Cons

Customization is hard. I don't mean the changing themes, sliding windows, arranging bars but I do mean the customizing the api's for implementing and integrating with other systems is not easy.

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mW

muhamamd W.  
student  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "matlab review"

February 18, 2019

5.0

AS I am using Matlab for previous 4 years and itsvery useful the more you get into it the more you find it intreting. AS it had some issues of pricing and slow loading but due to its great features its still a useful tools for many organisation and institute

Pros

AS I am using MATLAB over a certain years I have observed many of its features and defects. 1)MATLAB tools are best as it provide a vast library for linear algebra,Fourier,and statistics. 2)MATLAB contains a simulink library which can be use to model power systems and run simulations. MATLAB is very accurate when providing simulation result 3)using MATLAB complex problems of signal processing,image processing can be solved easily. 4)the help function of MATLAB makes its very easy to use all you have to do is just type help followed by your desired keyword and it will provide you a complete documentation of how to use the function. 5)when ever there is any mistake in your code it will clearly highlight the position and type of error. 6)MATLAB can be used to plot graphs and graphs formed are very clear and accurate.

Cons

1)To be expert in MATLAB is not very easy. for saving different functions you needs to have different type of files.you cannot store different functions in one .m file 2)one cannot share his MATLAB work to a person who does not have access to MATLAB. 3)Highly priced as you have to renew the license after some time of use. 4)some times the program get freeze without any reason.

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Andrei P.  
Student  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "It is pricey but you get what you pay for."

March 26, 2022

4.0

Matlab is expensive, but it also offers a lot of features and is not so confusing as some of its competitors. I think it is the best math computation software.

Pros

Matlab has a strong customer support and a lot of information about it on the internet, it is the most reliable math computation software.

Cons

It can be quite expensive. If you lose your company/university license, it becomes pretty much inaccessible.

Switched from

[Wolfram Mathematica](https://www.capterra.com/p/171048/Wolfram-Mathematica/)

It is simpler to understand.

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Anand R.  
Research Scholar  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MATLAB : One place for all mathematicians"

November 5, 2020

4.0

MATLAB is helping me a lot in my project. I have been working on it for the last 4 years. The huge library and easy to use interface allow me to do my work very proficiently. The inbuilt functions also reduce the time and effort to code. Its vast application in different fields enables us to use it for different application areas for example Simulink. But the software cost a bit high for us compared to other software available in the market.

Pros

The things I like the most about the product are 1. Huge library: Reduces effort 2. Easy to use syntax 3. A wide range of application areas 4.No prior programming language knowledge required

Cons

The things I dislike the most about the product are 1.High initial cost 2. It makes the system work slow while solving complex problems.

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Praveen N.  
Electrical and Electronic Engineer  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "A great tool for research and development"

January 14, 2020

5.0

MATLAB is a great software for research and development tasks. I have been using it for image processing, video processing and ANN applications and so far it has been a great tool. The cost and complexity is a bit of a downside.

Pros

This software is fairly easy to use, and has an inbuilt tutorials as a help function, so if you ever need to find a command or want to see what a particular function does, you can easily find an answer. Matlab functions as a single solution that allows you to perform a large number of tasks from image processing to artificial neural networks. Essentially, your limit is your imagination with this tool.

Cons

Even though tutorials are present, there still is a learning curve and you will have to spend some time going through the tutorials until you become familiar with everything. Another disadvantage is the cost. The software is very expensive, that it is difficult for a single person to afford unless supported by their organization or employers. The software is pretty big and a large chunk of storage will be taken from your hard drive.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Graduate Research Assistant  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Matlab reviews for computations"

December 10, 2018

4.0

I have been using MATLAB for solving the Machine Learning problem, training my own data models for all sort of data-set, and it has been a good experience in solving the real world issues and publishing the results with this easily accessible software that's very handy to use.

Pros

MATLAB is a very intuitive software which is beneficial for training the very own model for the Machine Learning algorithms. It's very easy to learn software and a go-to-programming software for any professionals/students. It's very convenient to draw the graphs of the output results of the trained model for Ml and AI. The codes and it's syntax are easy to learn and apply.

Cons

Being an open-source software could make it more accessible to the students and other professionals. Finding the error in the entire code is hectic sometimes and the error details could be improved to solve the problems efficiently.

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RG

Rafael G.  
Docente  
Civil Engineering  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Powerful tool for big data process application"

February 12, 2024

5.0

Pros

It allows you to download data directly from compressed international repositories to servers with URL access. In addition to processing previous information, downloading avoiding increasing the space occupied for storage.

Cons

It's too heavy a program and uses a lot of team resources. It is a software that can be used only during its processes.

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