Measuring voting districts and distributions part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Eugene Mahmoud, Mt San Antonio College
This project-based activity allows students to use MATLAB to analyze voting district boundaries and their relationship to social and environmental justice. Students recreate geographic borders, calculate centroids, ...

Procrustes Skull Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Emily Dosmar, University of Illinois - Chicago
Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyze the distribution of a set of shapes. The goal of this assignment is to compare different skull types to a reference skull to determine ...

Bouncing Ball Explorer part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Exploration of the sound of a bouncing ball dropped on a hard surface, the sound recorded with a mobile phone or laptop microphone, is the basis for an accessible experiment in elementary mechanics. For ...

Stress Map part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
James Conder, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Use earthquakes from the global CMT catalog to look at crustal stresses in a given region of the Earth. Students will download earthquake data from an online catalog and make 2 tectonic maps. One map is of the ...

Wordle GUI Application part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Sarah Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
We will introduce a project in which students will use Matlab to create a Wordle game GUI application. In this project, students will need to complete a series of tasks in MATLAB, such as data management, GUI ...

Downloading data and data manipulation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
i gouirand, the UWI
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate the use of Matlab commands for opening and processing climate data. The climate data is retrieved from https://iri.columbia.edu as a netcdf file. The main objective is ...

ROC models for memory part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
weiwei zhang, University of California-Riverside
This teaching activity provides a visual illustration of several major cognitive models of human memory using Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROCs) and Matlab. It is designed to show the students how various ...

Classification Exercise - Pattern Recognition part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Luis M Vicente, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This exercise contains instructions for a university project related to pattern recognition using MATLAB. Students are tasked with testing a pre-designed classifier, analyzing results, and submitting a detailed ...

Taylor Series and Efficient Calculations of Transcendental Functions part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Ethan Duckworth, Loyola University Maryland
This module helps students learn/relearn about Taylor series, the remainder theorem, symbolic tools in MATLAB, and writing efficient functions for calculating transcendental functions. Students are reminded about ...

Matrix Coding & Decoding part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Edith Aguirre, El Paso Community College
The activity provides students with a 3x3 matrix key that will be used to code and decode messages. Students will use MatLab to code, and matrix multiplication to encrypt a message. Then their encrypted message ...