Table of Contents

8.   Matlab Lecture 8

8.1   Datasets
8.2   Data Files

8.2.1   Tables of Data
8.2.2   File Format: CSV
8.2.3   File Format: XLS
8.2.4   File Format: MAT
8.2.5   Size issues
8.2.6   Pre-processing data with Matlab
8.2.7   Pre-processing data outside of Matlab

8.3   Importing Data
8.4   Numerical data versus String data
8.5   Plotting

8.5.1   Bar Charts
8.5.2   Labels
8.5.3   Overlaying plots
8.5.4   Meshing (3d graphs)
8.5.5   Multiple plots

8.6   Assignment - Lecture 8

8.6.1   Part A - Individual
8.6.2   Part B - Group Component
8.6.3   Part C - Individual Component

Raw Data and Matlab m-files for data preparation:

gas_all_grades.csv   Data: Gasoline prices for different regions over various time periods.

geography.csv   Data: description of regions and codes.

plot_gasprice1.m   M-File script for data preparation and plotting (1)

plot_gasprice2.m   M-File script for data preparation and plotting (2)

indexOf.m   Function for data preparation

extractRegion.m   Function for data preparation

cities.csv   Data: Selected U.S. cities

states.csv   Data: Selected U.S. states

regions.csv   Data: U.S. regions

xticklabel_rotate.m   M-File used for rotating labels on the x-axis