MathWorks MATLAB Release 2014b

MathWorks has announced a major release of MATLAB as part of its Release 2014b that includes an updated graphics system, big data capabilities and improved collaboration features for packaging and sharing code, and for source control integration. With these capabilities, engineers and scientists in all major industries can more easily analyse and visualise their data.

The updated default colours, fonts, and styles in the graphics system in MATLAB make it easier to interpret and gain insight from data. Improved syntax for changing properties of graphics objects makes it simpler to customise visualisations. Additional new features include rotatable tick labels, support for multilingual text and symbols, and automatic updating of date and time tick labels.

Additional big data capabilities within MATLAB provide more efficient ways to process data sets that don’t fit into memory. These include simplified ways to access and analyse big data text files and databases, and support for the MapReduce programming technique directly within MATLAB. These capabilities also scale for use on the big data platform Hadoop.

MATLAB 2014b also offers Git and Subversion source control system integration through the Current Folder Browser, including the ability to sync from web-hosted repositories such as those on GitHub. Custom toolboxes can be packaged as single, installable files. This makes it easier to distribute, as well as install and manage the shared code.