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# Page 16 - Reviews of MATLAB

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Sheikh A.  
Chief Technological Officer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Jack of all trades becoming master of many"

May 16, 2019

4.0

We use it for academic and industrial projects - the toolboxes are quite versatile.

Pros

Over the past few years, MATLAB has improved in many domains - toolboxes, function-writing, speed, etc. Paired up with Git, it's convenient for collaboration, too. For robust image processing or computations, MATLAB is quite convenient.

Cons

Medium-end device or non-SSD hard drive performance might suffer due to heaviness of this software. Remote running is not convenient yet.

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DM

Daniel M.  
University intern  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Matlab, the best tool for mathematics"

July 22, 2023

5.0

Personally, I used it for automatic control, because it is very easy to do this thanks to the extra function of "SimuLink", which allows programming with blocks to perform any type of action, such as modeling, simulation and analysis of dynamic systems. In addition, with the acquisition of data from any system, you can use a tool called "SISOTOOL" with which you can obtain a transfer function, and with it obtain the necessary values to perform a PI, PD, PID control.

Pros

Its programming language is similar to that of other software, it contains many tools that can be integrated into the original MatLab, which allow you to perform functions that a human would usually take days to solve, and the software solves it in a short time, depending on your hardware.

Cons

It is very expensive to acquire, and it does not have a full version, free for students. It's a bit difficult to use because at the end of the day, it's programming software.

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DM

Dillon M.  
Student  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Matlab makes Homework Horrible"

October 28, 2023

4.0

Pretty mid. It's hard to use and hard to understand at times. And the error codes make no sense on how to fix code issues.

Pros

I like that it has the option to work in just the command window or just in script files. I like that it has an online option as well for when I don't want to wait for the program to start up

Cons

The programming that seems like it would be intuitive often doesn't work. I have to use matlab for several assignments in school, and every other data analytic program solves them easier than matlab does.

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AN

Ayman N.  
Instructor  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "A must-have software for researchers and engineers "

October 13, 2022

5.0

Pros

The must-have tool for researchers and engineers. I use it to do computations, optimizations, and dat visualization. With a massive number of toolboxes supported, MATLAB provides powerful platform for everyday technical tasks.

Cons

As it is an interpreted language, the speed of codes is not the best. Also the price is too high.

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SK

Sunit K.  
Post Doc  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "An essential software for computation "

July 15, 2021

5.0

As a user for 8+ years, my overall experience with MATLAB is excellent.

Pros

There are several features that I like about MATLAB. A few of these features are data visualization, interactive plots, ease of writing codes, number of built-in commands, etc. However, the feature that I most like is parallel computing; it speeds up your simulations and lets you utilize your computer system's full capacity.

Cons

As a researcher, I use other packages also, like Maple, Mathematica. The one major issue that I miss in MATLAB is an interactive integration between MATLAB and these software. As an example, if I am working in Maple, and have to switch to MATLAB, I can simply convert the command line for MATLAB using Maple package; however, the reverse is not true.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Research assistant  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Excellent Data Analysis Software"

September 13, 2019

5.0

MATLAB syntax and user interface are intuitive which makes the transition from other data analysis software very smooth.

Pros

MATLAB user interface is intuitive with built-in manual and good debugging tools. There's a big library of mathematical and statistical functions for easy modelling and statistical analyses. Additionally, many packages are developed by the community and are readily available. The syntax is relatively easy to understand and adapt to when coming from other data analysis software.

Cons

I am not a huge fan of having only one function per file as it quickly leads to a folder filled with a lot of small files. The software itself is quite expensive and often requires purchasing additional toolboxes to get all necessary functions. Longer analyses sometimes slow down the whole system.

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Ondrej K.  
R&D Project Manager  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Matlab Review"

August 19, 2023

5.0

Satisfied

Pros

Matlab is a great software tool. I can warmly recomment it towards your team. It helps us in a various cases during development of a new products. Matlab has a limitless options for which purposes it can be used.

Cons

Basically no disadvantages. Maybe is appears to me that sometimes it is difficuts to get some customer support.

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Muhammad Rizki O.  
Research Assistant  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Perfect for Engineering modeling and simulation"

November 7, 2019

5.0

I learned to use Matlab since I was in college, and now after learning some programming languages, I think that Matlab is the easiest one for engineering modeling and simulation. I found out that most engineering and science students in the US also use Matlab in their courses, so I believe their professors also think the same.

Pros

Easy to learn and use even with no experience in programming, therefore Matlab is very suitable for student and beginner in programming world. A lot of applications can be done with Matlab since it has a lot of built-in functions to use in various fields.

Cons

Due to its comprehensiveness in features and built-in function, Matlab is such heavy software to use in personal computer. It is not suitable to run large, complex program as it will run forever to do that unless one has a very powerful high-performance-computer.

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Ginés H.  
Research Associate at Perceptual Computing Laboratory  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Good for academic purposes, not as much for companies"

June 28, 2018

4.0

Pros

They seem to keep improving it every year. They are also including machine learning and AI algorithms every year. In my opinion, the easiest "programming language" to learn, because it is not purely a programming language indeed.

Cons

None customer support for free version Non-free version is super expensive Being made in Java makes it inherit the slowness and bugs of Java... Python is usually better as a free alternative.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Researcher  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Calculations of research experiment results are easy with Matlab"

January 24, 2020

5.0

Matlab saves a lot of time with its functions.

Pros

Predefined functions if Matlab makes my life easier. Especially statistical tools are so useful. I wrote a code to make my results understandable once and I use for all my experiments. Its convex optimization tools is one the best in the market. Only alternative could be python which takes more time to write a code.

Cons

Matlab is a bit overpriced if you do not have business subscription.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
2nd Chairman of the General Assembly  
Biotechnology  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Good Programming Language for Linear Algebra"

February 5, 2019

4.0

Pros

This program/programming language is good for what it was made. It makes all linear algebra calculations and problems seem easy. Using matrices as the basic object, all the commands are straightforward and, even if not, the help section is extremely helpful with examples and explanations for each command.

Cons

Sadly, this programming language really is only for linear algebra basic problems. For problems such as modelling dynamical systems, despite having the right functions/commands, I find it very hard to work with. Other programs have a less steep learning curve for this.

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SAA

Syed Abbas A.  
Student  
Research  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "MATLAB is better for researchers than python "

September 3, 2022

5.0

I really liked MATLAB

Pros

MATLAB has this cool feature that you can write you code in your editor and then past it to run. Also it runs line by line so it will do most of the work even if there is any bug.

Cons

MATLAB do everything for matrices which sometimes make things complicated for example when multiplying two arrays, you have to put a dot before the multiplication or the answer will be a mess.

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PKD

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

### "MATLAB for Engineers"

July 9, 2021

5.0

Pros

MATLAB features multifunctions. From mathematical modelling, design, analysis to simulation. The AI/Machine learning algorithms are very powerful. Very interactive GUI. Covers almost all the fields of engineering.

Cons

Software is heavy so needs a powerful computer. It slows down in less powerful computers.

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indunil E.  
engineer  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "DOING MATH TRICKS"

October 6, 2019

5.0

i recommend this software for every one because of it makes every thing easy.

Pros

Matlab is a good software that has a easy coding language that is easily understandable for any one. This is a essential programme for Engineers and the people who are dealing with science stuff.

Cons

Some times this software get trashed during the process and it should be updated. This software is bit more expensive and it is not open source software.

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Shamal J.  
Student  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "MATLAB for Engineering Undergraduate "

July 13, 2019

5.0

Pros

We can use MATLAB for our Mathematical simulations. We can code to have our required output. We can plot our results in 2D, 3D and etc. Even graphs and Plots can be customized according to our request. We can also do signal analysis and simulations with the help of MATLAB. When it comes to image and audio analysis we can use MATLAB even for that. It provides great set of features to do those kind of things. It also support a lot of file types to import as data. We can also install packages for specified task we required to do. Some types of graphs which are supported by MATLAB are Area, Scatter, Bar and line. MATLAB is a necessary software for Engineering undergraduate in my point of view. We can save our results as JPG or other required file types.

Cons

It will be little bit difficult to use in the first time if you have less knowledge on programming. It will take some time to be familiar with MATLAB.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Test Manager  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The best math tool platform"

August 24, 2020

5.0

I developed embedded control systems. The first challenge is to process and filter the signals from the sensors and transducer, using the DSP I can create in short time the C code for the embedded system. The second part is create a reliable control algorithm and Fuzzy Logic has been a cost effective solution. Now I am learning how to use it for wireless communication to design and test the embedded systems communication .

Pros

I have been using Matlab since 1997, I installed it on my desktop computer using 3 1/2" diskettes. - The basic functions are very easy to learn, in minutes you can start solving complex math problems. Create graphs and other stuff. - There are several Toolboxes designed for specific areas. For example: The Fuzzy Toolbox allowed me to develop the control algorithms in my embedded control systems. Run the simulations and find optimal control. - With the DSP toolbox I created cost effective instrumentation systems.

Cons

The basic functions are very easy to learn, with a proper tutorial you can solve complex math problems in less than 3 hours. However, if you want to add some other functionalities, prepare yourself to invest a considerable amount of time, but the invested time will give you great rewards.

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chamika G.  
Student  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Matlab for Students"

September 11, 2019

4.0

I'm using matlab for developing prototypes of neural networks, machine learning etc. I have done some simulations with simulink.

Pros

This software is better for students and beginners. We can write simple codes for complex things. Helps for my projects (AI stuff)- machine learning , image processing, neural networks , deep learning Also good for simulating thins. A better software for developing prototypes. Many libraries are available. As there are vectorized implementations, the codes run much faster. Visualizing ability of the software helps to understand the structure of the data.

Cons

A heavy software Takes more time to load to the computer could not run in small / low speed computers. Could not make real software. (we should implement the theories again in another language) I was unable to find plugins for other languages. therefor switching from this language to a other language is quite difficult, we have to write entire code.

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NN

Naveed N.  
User  
Construction  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "As a User "

February 2, 2022

5.0

Excellent tool

Pros

I'm using this tool Solar system designing and analyzing. The built in tool are the most thing I like in MATLAB and also your can analysis your design by plotting layouts and charts . Easy to track errors

Cons

Sometime it will hanged the system and stop responding

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Andrew H.  
Software Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "A must for every engineer"

October 3, 2020

5.0

A good experience and a necessary tool that I would always use

Pros

It is the best and the most necessary aoftware for each engineer either a student or an engineer working in electronics and software fields also helps math teachers to emphasize their explanations for students

Cons

A little bit difficult in setting up the environment for its installation also it sometimes becomes not responding as consumes huge amount of ram memory

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Data Scientist  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Wonderful software for numerical, especially scientific, calculations"

April 15, 2019

5.0

As a data scientist, I use a variety of tools for doing statistics. Matlab was one of my favorite, until our company switched to Python because it's free. Matlab has everything you may need, from the simplest numerical calculations to complicated functional analysis, calculus, statistics and plotting. All is just built in.

Pros

The product provides all possibilities for a variety of scientific calculations - it has everything you can think of, from the simplest numerical calculations to complicated functional analysis, calculus, statistics and plotting. All is just built in.

Cons

Unlike some of its worse analogues (like R), it's not free.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
System Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Be it a civil engineer or an architect all demands gets met here"

May 4, 2022

5.0

Pros

The most astonishing feature of the software is the vast usability and the potential of the software. Be it calculation of the building or a structural design all the enginnering solutions are brought and can be rectified with ease.

Cons

Well though the software has been a lot easier to use since updates and versions in the recent years I still feel it is somewhat difficult for a starter with no experience. If it could have been like AutoCAD i would have said it to be pretty flawless.

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AO

Abigail O.  
Student  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Review for MATLAB users"

March 29, 2022

5.0

Very useful and helpful in the students

Pros

The program can be used as a scratchpad to calculate command-line expressions, or it can be used to perform great prewritten platforms. And also the applications can be transcribed, improved, and corrected using the incorporated combined growth situation and the MATLAB debugger. Since semantics is so easy to learn, it is perfect for prompt prototyping of new presentations.

Cons

The cons is that because it is an inferred semantic, it may perform further leisurely than an accumulated semantic. This concern can be investigated by correctly organizing the MATLAB program.

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Pranamesh C.  
Pre-Doctotal Research Fellow  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "One of the best tool for machine learning and deep learning"

March 1, 2019

4.0

I like Matlab the most because state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms can be applied very easily to datasets. Computer vision toolbox is very useful and simple to use and I use it a lot.

Pros

Matlab has lots of features which helps in applying any machine learning algorithm as required. All modern state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning tools can be applied very easily.

Cons

Matlab is not free to use which is one of the main disadvantages.

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TP

Taylor P.  
Engineering Student  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great for Computational Analysis"

March 15, 2020

5.0

In an educational setting, MATLAB is a must if high level matrices or multi-variable calculus/differential equations are to be solved. This is a powerful tool that can successfully accomplish a wide variety of computational tasks that an average spreadsheet program cannot adequatly perform.

Pros

As an Engineer focused on System Dyanmics, I often have to set up complex simulations that require I high level of computing of hundreds to thousands of intricate calculations. These calculations are of an iterative manner meaning each calculation must be based on the previous calculation and can take a lot of time and effort to ensure they are organized in a proper sequence. MATLAB is a robust software package that is more than equipped to handle such large amounts of data quickly and effectively.

Cons

MATLAB is an expensive piece of software if you are buying an individual seat. I recommend that if you must purchase something of its caliber, you should evaluate if you or your team really needs its capabilites.

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RG

Rodrigo G.  
PhD  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The best interpreted language for a wide variety of engineering and science applications"

July 25, 2018

5.0

Ease of use and increased productivity in many tasks, from simple to very complex ones. There are nice APIs used for mathematical optimisation such as AMPL, Gurobi or CVX, that are very well integrated and that are enhanced by the immense usefulness of MATLAB.

Pros

MATLAB is a easy to use and efficient science oriented interpreted language and as such it is very easy to use and well integrated with other commercial solutions. It has an impressive list of carefully designed and well maintained packages that make any user very proficient in any scientific application. The included documentation is superb and the community is very supportive. One last good thing is that the software is very common among many circles, this means there are a lot of APIs designed to work with MATLAB.

Cons

Unlike compiled languages (e.g. C++), it is relatively slow for some low-level computations. It is a bit expensive if you compare it with general use programming languages such as Python, but being honest, the Pros described before compensate for this.

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