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MATLAB Essentials

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Expand your data analysis and modeling skills in MATLAB, a programming and numeric computing platform used to analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models. Millions of engineers and scientists worldwide use MATLAB to study and build advanced applications in machine learning, deep learning, signal processing, communications, image processing, and control systems. They are shaping the future by modeling rockets that may someday take you into space, developing autonomous vehicles to travel safely and efficiently, and designing wave farms that harness the power of ocean waves to generate clean energy.

In this course, you'll use MATLAB to examine real-world problems and answer questions like:

  • How far does a blue whale swim each day?
  • What is the favorite topping in a pizza shop?
  • What is the ride quality of a car suspension?
  • How does the magnitude of an earthquake impact the strength of a tsunami?
  • What is the most expensive failure in a factory?

MATLAB makes it easy to see results quickly, so there are no pre-requisites for the course. Whether you're auditing or a verified learner, you will have free access to MATLAB for the duration of the course. You will learn how to process, analyze, and visualize data collected nearly everywhere in today's digital workplace. You'll use powerful templates and auto-generated code to start experimenting immediately and quickly process similar data sets. And you'll gain the essential programming skills needed to perform these exciting tasks.

Throughout the course, you'll have ample opportunities to practice your newly acquired skills – through auto-graded assignments, practice quizzes, interactive readings, and projects. By the end of the course, you'll be ready to analyze your own data sets and impress colleagues with word clouds, geographic plots, animations, and more.

Additionally, this course will give you the skills you need to prepare for the MathWorks Certified MATLAB Associate exam. Certification verifies valuable transferable skills, sets you apart in the job market, and can help accelerate professional growth.

Taught by

Brian Buechel, Tugce Kasikci, Pragya Lakhotia, Brian Neiswander, Megan Thompson and Nikola Trica

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5.0 rating, based on 20 Class Central reviews

4.4 rating at edX based on 108 ratings

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  • Anonymous
    This is a wonderful introductory course. I liked the way the course was structured to slowly build up from simple topics to more complex ones. The quizzes and projects helped evaluate the skills learned through the videos/tutorials/documentation. I…
  • Anonymous
    Great course. I learned about importing and manipulating tables among several other topics. I have taken a college level course in MATLAB, but the course had a different emphasis than manipulating data that this course included. This course showed several key aspects of the programming that are very important, which include importing and manipulating data, by group data set analysis and creation and use of apps. I also should mention array indexing was very useful along with a description of the difference in string and character data. This course provide and excellent starting point for introducing these last two concepts. They did take additional review outside of this course.
  • Anonymous
    This course is excellently designed, covering a wide range of topics. Each and every step is detailed very meticulously. The discussion forum is also very active and the instructors are very dedicated to solve our issues quickly. I appreciate and thank everyone who made this happen.
  • Anonymous
    Amazing course. It introduces learners to MATLAB as a resource in everyday life and allows learners to explore the vast possibilities of MATLAB as an all round tool and not just for programming and most people might think
  • Justin Leary
    This is a great course on Matlab. I just completed it, and found it was both an enjoyable and rewarding course to take. Its strengths include being easy to follow, well-written and designed yet sufficiently challenging to make it rewarding and bene…
  • Anonymous
    It was a great learning experience. Looking forward to doing more such courses in the future. I was taught MATLAB essentials like plots, app creation, statistics, basic commands, etc.
    I would highly recommend this course to other beginners as well. Keep up the good work!
  • Anonymous
    Il corso è fatto molto bene. Ogni sezione è guidata passaggio per passaggio e c'è sempre modo di applicare ciò che è stato imparato. In caso di dubbi c'è sempre il forum e la possibilità di chiedere spiegazioni!
  • Anonymous
    Hello, my name is Chris. The class "MATLAB Essentials" by Mathworks is more than just a course, instead its an interactive experience. The course developers certainly gave MATLAB an effective introduction, and the code along videos make you feel like a real engineer. The enthusiasm from the speakers, the well put together course content, and the structure of the course, produces a fun and engaging experience. I would take another course of theirs if they made one.
  • Anonymous
    I recommend this course for those who, for various reasons, have become distant from MATLAB. With this course, you can gain a perspective on what can currently be achieved with this tool and remember that the MATLAB community is extensive, and you are not alone when it comes to learning and embarking on your projects.
  • Anonymous
    The course is very interactive with the course Mentors always there to reach you ASAP to clarify any doubts we may encounter while completing any task or in midst of the project at the end of the sections. I learned how to Organize Analyze and Vis…
  • Anonymous
    Great course for a beginner, the teaching style is engaging and impressive, the quizzes and section projects also help to build up you confidence.
  • Anonymous
    Very good course to know and review Matlab essentials! You can take notes to use it later during your homework or daily job :)
  • Anonymous
    Great course! It guides you through all the topics clearly and has very valuable resources for effective learning.
  • Anonymous
    An excellent introduction to MATLAB. The content that is taught is top notch and the exercises, quizzes are good but the highlight of the course for me are the section projects after each unit where we are given a real life problem and asked to code in MATLAB. The staff members are active on the discussion forum and your doubts are answered within 24 hours. I highly recommend that people who have no experience in MATLAB to take this course and experience the beauty of this software.
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    Ramzi Rouissi
    If there is a course in the World today , that would make you treat MATLAB as Friend and a futur partner is This course. I was surprised by the level of everything , the course , the videos , the application and especially the instructors. Thanks a lot for everything and I hope in the futur I will be certified in it. I m a mechancial engineering but from today i will add Matlab to my daily routine.
  • Anonymous
    Great course by the folks at MathWorks. I've used MATLAB quite a lot, and had no idea of a lot of the functionality they showed in the course, such as live scripts, tasks, and app development. These topics would be a great complement to people who are already familiar with programming in MATLAB, but need help being able to share their code and results with others.
  • Anonymous
    An amazing course to get started with MATLAB. This course sets a solid foundation in all major aspects of MATLAB, from importing data to preprocessing to analysis and visualization to sharing. This course makes it really easy for anyone to go learning beyond the course material and using MATLAB as an integral tool in everyday professional work.
  • Anonymous
    it was superb, thanks to all instructors and technical staff who were involved in this, really enjoyed the pizza and whale data analysis with all the animations coming through. From a students perspective it was one of the best classes i've had until now. Hoping to learn more and deep into matlab
  • Anonymous
    This MOOC is well-versed in all aspects of LTC related tasks for the beginners starting with data mining technique, etc. Each section material is based upon really thoughtful approaches and gentle guidance.
  • Sandor Szabo
    For beginners with only basic knowledge is perfect.
    It helps to reinforce existing and new knowledge.
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