MathWorks MATLAB R2014b simulation software

MathWorks has announced the latest version of MATLAB, which 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 major industries can more easily analyse and visualise their data.

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

Additional big data capabilities provide 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. These capabilities also scale for use on big data platform Hadoop.

The software 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 install and manage the shared code.