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# Page 9 - Reviews of MATLAB

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VR

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

### "Review of MATLAB"

January 1, 2019

5.0

I used MATLAB to develop risk analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization, and machine learning algorithms in my research. I am totally satisfied with its powerful functions and toolboxes.

Pros

I have been using MATLAB for doing the computations which need high computation power. MATLAB is a very powerful tool for doing the matrix calculations, running complicated functions. It provides useful toolboxes with a user-friendly environment. It has a very broad database of mathematical algorithms for data analytics, machine learning, and image recognition. It also desktop version and online version. This software is a very good option for the programming beginners as it facilitates the code compilation and different function calls. Online version helps me to run my code on a computer which doesn't have the desktop version of it.

Cons

Although MATLAB is a very powerful programming software with lots of tools and abilities, however, it sometimes takes a significant amount of time to run the code with complex and big data. In my opinion, it is not good idea to use this programming software to analyze big data. Another weak point of this software is that it is not free, and it is expensive to buy the license.

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Maria Gabriela E.  
Ingeniero civil  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "It is an excellent software tool for mathematical works that require precision."

March 26, 2018

4.0

You must work constantly with this program because with frequent use you learn to develop yourself within the software, it is of vital importance for the mathematical processes. Recommended.

Pros

It is an excellent software tool for mathematical works that require precision, offers an integrated development with a programming language. It is available for several platforms such as Windows, Mac OS or Linux, so anyone can take advantage of this advantageous mathematical program. It is excellent for the implementation of algorithms, for the manipulation of matrices, also for the creation of user interfaces, the representation of data and / or functions, also well used for communication with programs in other languages or hardware devices. Particularly use this software at the university to detail mathematical models more easily.

Cons

It has an additional tool called MATLAB Builder under the section of tools to use functions of the program like for example files of the library that can be used in the construction of application net or Java. But in the computer where this program is downloaded it has to be used with another component that is additional to the MATLAB (Runtime), so that the files work perfectly. This increases the use of the disk.

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AO

Angelica O.  
Ads Assessor  
Computer Networking  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "My best university ally"

December 11, 2022

5.0

it was a software recommended to me by my professor, and now I use it every day to produce graphics for my thesis and my presentations. one of the best inventions on the market

Pros

I have been using this software for almost a year and a half now. Since I'm following and carrying out a university project regarding the formation of a prediction algorithm for toxic molecules, this software is my best ally. The commands are simple and immediate, as is the writing of the matrices, compared to other programming software

Cons

Unfortunately, having both a Mac and a Windows computer available, I see that there are differences in terms of speed, functions and performance of the program. However I understand that the support between the two operating systems is also different

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George C.  
CAE Engineer  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Matlab"

July 20, 2023

4.0

Usually consultancy on CAE area integrated with other simulation commercial software, specially for post processing and evaluation of results.

Pros

The plotting, mathematical functions, machine learning and neural networks algorithm are most important features for my scope. The product is for professional people not for beginners so is not easy to use.I have integrated some functions in my simulation projects using and other commercial software.

Cons

The price is a bit higher for someone what start own business as consultant like me.

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MB

Matthew B.  
Mechanical Engineer  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "An Incredibly powerful piece of kit"

March 26, 2019

5.0

Pros

As a mechanical engineer I use Matlab literally everyday and I not sure that I would be able to live (or at least do my job very well) without it. It is a very powerful software that can be used in many different ways for different professions. I really like how many useful built in features (functions) there are, and it's great that there are many different options to choose from if you wish to add more features (tool boxes). I like how versatile the program with when if comes to the different formats that you can import and export, for example anything from a spreadsheet full of data to a 3D CAT scan image. I feel like the possibilities are endless with what you can do with Matlab. I also used Matlab frequently as an engineering student. It made doing complex calculations and plotting such as differential equations so much easier and saved me a great deal of time too.

Cons

I have been using Matlab for several years now so I am very familiar with it, but it can take some time and learning to get used to at first and can feel a little intimidating. That being said, there are a wealth of resources out there, including some great tutorials on the Matlab/Mathworks website.

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IA

Iredon A.  
Researcher  
Renewables & Environment  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Reality about Matlab"

March 5, 2023

5.0

Pros

What I most like from matlab software is that, as a user, I don't to fully download the software before using it. It can be directly used online, anywhere whith any computer without any protocol. Previous work can be easily recovered in case i lose my laptop.

Cons

What I like form matlab is that the way of solving a particular problem is all ready in the software, I just need to understand what I want and apply.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
RF Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great Piece of software for mathematical modelling"

October 21, 2022

5.0

Pros

I like how simple it is to use and how accurate the results are in MATLAB. I like its ability to solve the most complicated arithmetic operations and matrices. I sometimes use this software to post-process the data from other software. The antenna design tool kit feature in MATLAB is so great and easy to use. It has got different toolboxes like signal Deep learning, Image processing, signal processing, etc. If we have internet access, we can access MATLAB and Simulink using any normal web browser by logging in to 'MATLAB ONLINE'.

Cons

The software is a bit hard to use for beginners and is a bit expensive. Because MATLAB consumes so much CPU power, the computer lags sometimes.

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Reinaldo C.  
Student of Electrical Engineering  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The MOST usefull software for Engineering"

April 6, 2019

5.0

Half of my degree I have used matlab in the most varied disciplines, such as: physics, electrical circuits, signals and systems, power electronics, digital control, analog control, used with arduino and others applications.

Pros

I worked with matlab for long 5 years, all my graduation i used this software and i improved my knowledge in it, so i loved so much. Help-me at eletromagnetism, eletrical circuits, signal and systems, physical and probably half of my graduation. the programming language is a little tricky, but it comes from C and with the new enhancements it is possible to also have an object-oriented programming.

Cons

maybe the only problem is a lot of detail that sets it apart from other programming types, but it becomes very useful so it's not a problem, written by someone who actually had to work with most of their functionality.

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Hesham S.  
Research assistant  
Research  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "It's excellent, but deployment needs an overhaul."

August 28, 2021

4.0

Algorithms for image processing and automated lab equipment in the workplace are prototyped and developed in MATLAB. Data analysis is another use we've found for it. Image processing and algorithm development are the primary reasons for doing this, though.

Pros

\# This material is suitable for rapid prototyping. # Fast, on-the-fly dataset analysis # simplicity of learning # Really solid online guidance materials. # Huge community of engaged and active users, along with lots of queries.

Cons

\# Extensibility # Object-oriented programming support # making it possible for other languages to use functions Having the skill to create APIs for various languages

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MN

Maxwell N.  
Engineering Student  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Engineering Student use of MATLAB"

March 13, 2024

5.0

I am never mad to be assigned a project in MATLAB and actively choose to use it for some calculations. Many classes force or recommend its use at my school, which is a good thing as I think it is a very powerful tool that has many possible applications.

Pros

MATLAB is a great easy to learn programming language. It has proven incredibly useful to me in solving lab calculations, graphing lab data and also fully simulating an aircraft in Simulink. The amount of toolkits and features that expand off of the base MATLAB product make this a must have in my opinion.

Cons

Having used other coding languages, I always forget that its indexes start at 1 and not 0 which is the standard.

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HI

Hassa I.  
Researcher  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Poweder and eligible computing tool"

July 22, 2023

5.0

I would always recommend it to everyone

Pros

Data visualisation, data management, data simulation and statistics

Cons

Insufficient amount of memory or storage

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Ruhi S.  
Robotics research volunteer  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Will recommend to anyone who is into systems and controls design. My holygrail"

August 11, 2021

5.0

Overall, a pretty great tool for controller development.

Pros

MATLAB is a great tool for data analytics since it has built-in packages that give ready-to-use data solutions. If you have several developers or data scientists working on the same codebase, MATLAB has code versioning built-in so that you can simply link to Bitbucket/Git repositories.

Cons

MATLAB is a large program that takes a long time to install and open. In comparison to Python and other programming languages, MATLAB has fewer third-party packages. While MATLAB programs are capable of doing nearly any operation, accomplishing certain tasks that other languages are better suited to can be a hard process.

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AO

Ahmad O.  
Project Manager  
Construction  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MATLAB Pros and Cons"

May 20, 2023

5.0

MATLAB is a great software for data analysis, I used this software for more than two years in my university graduation project and it helped me a lot in some mathematical analysis.

Pros

MATLAB comes with a large collection of built-in functions and toolboxes that extend its capabilities. These toolboxes cover various domains, such as control systems, image processing, optimization, and machine learning. MATLAB supports multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Cons

MATLAB can have a steep learning curve, especially for users who are new to programming or have limited experience with mathematical software. MATLAB can consume much from your device memory, especially when working with large datasets or complex calculations.

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Ruwan D.  
Student  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Do your simulation projects with MATLAB"

September 25, 2021

5.0

I've done a lot of data processing and visualization with MATLAB. This software has greatly aided me in the areas of optimization and the use of repeated algorithms to solve problems. So my overall experience is good with this.

Pros

As a student at university, I learned how to use MATLAB and quickly realized that it is a useful tool for my works. I was able to accomplish whatever I want with this software because it is so comprehensive. During my university years, I used this tool to create simulations, projects, and calculations. Hence, MATLAB is a simpler programming language than many others, and it allows you to perform more operations with less code. Another advantage is It can be synced with many software.

Cons

There are also sporadic difficulties with Matrix inputs, and the order of operations occasionally deviates from the standard. And In some cases, a MATLAB version's code may cause an error in another version. Another flaw in this software is that it is not free, and purchasing a license is costly. That’s all about my cons with this.

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zS

zeghoudi S.  
Assistance programing  
Security and Investigations  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MATLAB is a ultra-program "

September 6, 2023

5.0

What a distinctive program that helped me a lot in my studies and then in the field of work in terms of calculation and presentation is a wonderful thing that cannot be dispensed with

Pros

What I loved about this program is its role in calculations and providing work-related statistics with the possibility of displaying them in the form of graphs.

Cons

maybe the size of the program can be large for medium devices

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VR

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

### "MATLAB excellent option for prototyping code"

June 7, 2019

5.0

My most recent project was using MATLAB to reduce data sets to make them in a more user friendly format (.xlsx types). Between my own programming experience and MATLAB's built-in documentation, the project was very straightforward.

Pros

MATLAB has many built-in functions with excellent documentation. There is a good chance that if you need to create a conversion (i.e. Lat-Lon-Alt to ECEF), that functionality is already in MATLAB. Though it is slow, MATLAB is an excellent way to prototype code that will be implemented in another language, such as Python or C++

Cons

The fee to use MATLAB outside of academic purposes is exorbitantly high. Also, the code itself is cumbersome, and you can only use the MATLAB text editor to compile MATLAB code.

Reason for choosing MATLAB

Python was considered, since it's free and open source. We use both.

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MRM

Mizanur Rahman M.  
CEO  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best for Engineering students"

December 14, 2022

5.0

Overall experience is excellent. It is a must for engineering cause you can't always stay in a lab at your university.

Pros

People who are familiar with any computer language can understand the techniques of using MATLAB. This is software that can be used in engineering fields. The ability to use image processing and signal analysis tools is an advantage. By coding the fundamental methods of processing, these techniques can be performed. This software can be used to create applications. It isn't built-in if you think you've eaten the matlab. If you look at the functions, you can see how the fathers of this job avoid the for's and how they use matrices badly. Your brain can become watery. Let me remind you that there are commands like profile and look for.

Cons

The software slows down the computer and I found virus warnings many times on my PC.  Most people don't think about buying it because it's too expensive. Most of the students use the cracked version at our university. So I think they should reduce its price.

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MP

Marco P.  
Student  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "One of the most powerful products in engeneering field."

October 30, 2020

4.0

I now use Matlab to do all my University projects. I have used it for 4 years. The first impact was literally very tough. At the beginning I think you need someone that teaches you to use the program. If not it is very difficult to start. But when you begin using it, after some time you can use it to do whatever project, calculations, program you want.

Pros

This software is so deep that you can do whatever you want with it. I used this product to make projects, models, simulations, programs, calculations during my universtity years. If you begin trying and learning to use this product the possibilities are endless. The interface is a little bit confusing at a first use. But with a little bit of training it takes its sense.

Cons

There are mainly two things that I don't really like of this products. The first one is that it is a program a little bit difficult to install and to update to the next release (sometimes I hade to uninstall completely two times the program to succed update it). The other thing that I don't really like is that the interface is maybe too complicated. You have lots of things that you can need. But when you are working on something specific you don't really need everything. It can be confusing.

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AP

Aniket P.  
Student Researcher  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Matlab: Making Programming Easier"

May 19, 2021

4.0

I had to switch to Matlab when I had to design machine learning pipelines quickly and had to deploy them as well. Matlab was very easy to setup, with just one installer doing the heavy lifting to install all the necessary packages and everything. The drag+drop interface is easy to use and understand, and helps in designing the pipelines quickly and efficiently. Matlab also runs faster, making efficient use of the GPU, which all in all is very easy as compared to it's alternatives.

Pros

Toolboxes. There are a lot of toolboxes for each different type of research domain, be it signals, image processing, machine learning, audio and what not. Each tool box is packed with a feature rich library of inbuilt functions for processing and analyzing data. Furthermore, using them is very easy with their drag+drop interface.

Cons

The user interface. I know that Mathworks is working continuously working on the UI, but it is still not at par with the current generation. The IDE looks very outdated with limited configuration. This gives it a whole outdated feel and makes very uncomfortable to use.

Switched from

[TensorFlow](https://www.capterra.com/p/170397/TensorFlow/)

We were using Tensorflow with Python. It is a more powerful library for Machine Learning as compared to Matlab, but using it is a mess and needs a different level of expertise. On the other hand, Matlab has a simplistic interface which one could learn easily by using it once.

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Dilraj S.  
Sr. Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "System simulations made easy!!"

July 20, 2019

4.0

MATLAB is a really useful tool for simulating the system and overall its modules for different fields of engineering provide us with great experience in developing the code for running simulations.

Pros

MATLAB helps students or researchers in completing their system simulations with its easy to use software. The system can be designed and coded on MATLAB for running these simulations and then the system performance can be analysed effectively. There is a module available for each engineering field which helps developers to start their system simulations very fast rather than having to write all the code from scratch.

Cons

MATLAB is an awesome tool for doing system simulations but license needs to be purchased for using the software, which is not the case for programming languages like python or R.

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VR

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

### "A Powerful Mathematics and Engineering Framework"

October 20, 2020

5.0

While not for everyone, if MATLAB would suit your workload and projects then it is an easy recommendation.

Pros

MATLAB is a language and computational framework targeted at mathematics and engineering workloads. Its broad framework covers many mathematic functions, from very simple algebraic functions to advanced computational algorithms, all built-in to MATLAB. Complicated computations that would take hundreds of lines in standard programming languages can be written in as few as a single line of code in MATLAB. In addition to the basic framework of MATLAB, there are many paid packages to further enhance the functionality of MATLAB to suit your project.

Cons

People with a background in programming often have trouble adjusting to using MATLAB. It is well known how MATLAB arrays start at 1 rather than the standard 0 in computer programming. This has been the bane of some projects. While the documentation for MATLAB functions is quite expansive, MATLAB's closed source nature leaves little room for modifying existing functions or digging through source code to understand the inner workings of the existing functions.

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Chandrashekhar K.  
Data Project Specialist  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "MATLAB review"

November 5, 2021

5.0

Amazing software to use. Can't see a better product in this category

Pros

1) One of the best software's for Simulation and Machine Learning 2) Very powerful 3) Easy to code

Cons

1) Very pricey 2) So powerful that it can overload your PC

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Saransh D.  
Graduate Research Assistant  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "My experience with this software has been wonderful"

June 26, 2018

5.0

With this software I learnt a lot of things. I learnt about how to work with artificial neural networking, signal processing etc. The feature of debugging helped me to understand how my code works and helped me make a good coder.

Pros

The best thing about matlab is the availability of the inbuilt functions and the GUI that it has. It allows users to access a multitude of different problem solving tools like optimization, neural networking, electric signals etc. The best thing about it is its library. The user can look up any functions and their usage and can understand clearly about how the function works via examples and videos.

Cons

The software is sometimes slow with implementation of the functions and data handling. That is why people these days are leaning towards other languages like Python.

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CY

Charles Y.  
Data Collection Clerk  
Research  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Provides a set of useful tools for statistical analysis and visual representation"

October 5, 2023

5.0

Our firm focuses on market research and my work involves collecting data and sometimes analyzing and presenting it. MATLAB has the features we need to manage, analyze, and present data to help our clients make informed decisions. MATLAB is relatively easy to use when you understand the basic functions and helps us meet our clients' needs. Although it is relatively expensive and requires learning, it is a great tool once you understand how it works.

Pros

MATLAB provides a full set of tools to analyze data and derive meaning from all the figures we collect from the field. It can accommodate a broad range of data and simplifies the analysis stage. It also comes in handy when writing reports, presentations, and filling out research data sheets because of its data visualization. You can use it to simplify complicated data sets into graphs and charts, making it easy for a layman to understand.

Cons

MATLAB requires learning because it is not one of the easiest software to use. It has many intricate tools designed to perform simple and complex mathematical or statistical tasks. Therefore, users certainly need to learn to effectively use it. However, analyzing data with MATLAB and creating charts and graphs is not too complicated.

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JDB

Juan David B.  
Master student  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The most complete software for numerical analysis"

June 29, 2021

5.0

In general, MATLAB has been very useful for developing my research in numerical analysis because I work with numerical schemes to approximate systems of nonlinear differential equations, and all the numerical simulations I perform are carried out in this program simply and efficiently. The experience has been excellent and I always recommend it to students and colleagues who have scientific interests similar to mine.

Pros

What I like most about MATLAB is its wide variety of tools that allow you to perform everything from simple linear regressions to designing complex mathematical models. Also, the ability to work with matrices and vectors makes it very easy to develop numerical routines to solve linear equation systems as well as to approximate solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations.

Cons

Ease of use could be improved as it takes some time to become familiar with the tools as well as the MATLAB programming language.

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