Yair Altman

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301 total contributions since 2007

Website: http://UndocumentedMatlab.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yairaltman

Author of "Accelerating MATLAB Performance" book:
http://UndocumentedMatlab.com/books/matlab-performance

Author of "Undocumented Secrets of MATLAB-Java Programming" book:
http://UndocumentedMatlab.com/books/matlab-java

MSc Computer Science, BSc Physics (both with top honors)

Professional programmer and manager since 1991

Contact me: altmany at gmail.com

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MATLAB Profiler - Granularity of Information
Use the [undocumented] -detail builtin profiler option, as in: profile on -detail builtin This works on old Matlab releases as ...

23 days ago | 1

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export_fig
Exports figures nicely to a number of vector & bitmap formats

24 days ago | 1273 downloads |

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How can I make the plot transparent in a gscattter?
Nice answer Adam, but not exactly accurate if you are willing to use some undocumented features... The underlying objects in a...

1 month ago | 3

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MATLAB export_fig crops title
This is fixed in the latest version of export_fig (3.09). In the future, report such issues in export_fig's issues page: https:/...

3 months ago | 0

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How to speed up a code from the Code Profiler Results ?
Try to set the "Vectorized" property using the odeset function, before running ode45. Also, specifying the Jacobian in advance (...

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IQML - Matlab connector to IQFeed
Matlab connector to IQFeed optimized for reliability, ease-of-use, functionality and performance (including parallelization)

3 months ago | 2 downloads |

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[Soft question] Tips and tools to analyze unfamiliar OO code
For inspecting a single object or class, try the GUI-based uiinspect utility (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexch...

3 months ago | 0

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Heatmap Axis Labels Printing Vertically?
The heatmap's X labels orientation is dynamically determined based on the number of labels and the axes width. In other words, i...

3 months ago | 1

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popupPanel Displays a popup panel with specified content
popupPanel Displays a popup panel with specified file contents, help topic, HTML or webpage

5 months ago | 3 downloads |

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graphics performance 2019a vs 2016b
R2019a uses the integrated axes toolbar, which constantly monitors mouse movements in order to generate data tips on-the-fly. If...

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Poor performance of mex file
You m-function uses parallelization (parfor), while your mex file does not. This in itself could cause your m-code to run much f...

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Increase CPU Speed - MAC
You can separate the problem into separate tasks and launch separate Matlab processes to process them in parallel. This is essen...

6 months ago | 0

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How can I clear stuck help popups?
Updates June 12, 2020: There is a recognized bug report on a very similar issue: https://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/1...

6 months ago | 3

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dynamic java path vs static java path
Some Java functionality, especially those that are concerned with Java events that need to propagate to Matlab callbacks, does n...

6 months ago | 0

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Matlab in AVX2 mode (for AMD CPU's)
This is apparently fixed on R2020a as reported by @NedFlanders (original credit is apparently due to @MichelKatz): https://www...

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How to change Heatmap's Grid (Edge) appereance and behavior?
There are several alternatives: Update the grid style to a non-solid line, for example: hHeatmap = struct(h_map).Heatmap; hHe...

7 months ago | 2

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Unable to use Java class in a package - Undefined function or variable 'CartesianCoordinate'.
This problem could be due to numerous possible causes, and unfortunately Matlab is not very helpful in explaining the root cause...

7 months ago | 0

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How to load multiple excel files with multiple excel sheets and store it in matlab faster?
Try to use the 'basic' mode of xlsread, which reads the XLS file directly instead of using the much slower Excel instance: for ...

8 months ago | 0

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Interactive broker timeseries vs history?
Both of these functions in the Trading Toolbox call IB's reqHistoricalDataEx function internally, but for some reason Mathworks ...

8 months ago | 0

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Legend looks very weird
Run the following and check if you still see the same problem: plot(1:3,1:3,'ko-', 1:3,2:4,'ro-', 1:3,3:5,'bo-'); legend('Cere...

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Scrollable text box for GUI with selectable/editable text
Your script generates a GUI that looks perfectly ok to me (fully scrollable & selectable) on my Win10, in both 18b and 20a. Yo...

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How can I suppress warnings about javacomponent being deprecated?
Wrap your javacomponent code as follows: oldWarningState = warning('off', 'MATLAB:ui:javacomponent:FunctionToBeRemoved'); [hjc...

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Plotting performance reduced in APP
App Designer creates an HTML/JavaScript-based webpages (uifigures), which are noticably slower than the Java-based figures that ...

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Datafeed Toolbox IQFeed Level 1 Data Fields Description
Cross-reference: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/330794-field-list-of-iqfeed-realtime-data In the Trading Toolb...

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With eSignal/InteractiveData being discontinued in the DataFeed Toolbox, are there any other "mid-range" cost options for financial vendors?
A possible mid-range / low-cost financial datafeed is https://eodhistoricaldata.com, which has a Matlab connector called EODML.

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Creating a time series object from IQFeed data.
Consider using my IQML (IQFeed-Matlab) connector as an alternative. IQML enables both synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous (b...

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IQFeed: plot return from array of cells?
I believe that the DataFeed toolbox functions only store data in base workspace variables, from which you need to fetch them aft...

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Is there a way to get the timestamp including milliseconds when using the timeseries function of the datafeed toolbox?
IQFeed only returns the millisecs if you set the connection's IQFeed API protocol to 5.0 (see the IQFeed changelog). In certain ...

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Can't build Tick data from iQfeed for e-mini S&P Futures(symbol: ES)
Consider using my IQML (IQFeed-Matlab) connector for this. IQML enables both synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous (background...

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How to effectively utilize listener and callback functions with iqfeed function realtime.
Consider using my IQML (IQFeed-Matlab) connector as an alternative. IQML enables both synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous (b...

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