And so 2017 comes to an end. And here again, to close out a year of exciting File Exchange Contributions: our annual review of our Picks of the year.

You can read the original blog posts for each of these picks by clicking on the names of the files and…

Sean's pick this week is LetItSnow by Richard Moore.


It's pretty simple, for those of us on the east coast of the US: let it snow! Download the file to see the pretty animation.LetItSnow
And by

Nothing is scarier sounding than a bomb cyclone. By analyzing weather station data on ThingSpeak, we see the bombogenesis forming.

GUI toolbar button labels can easily be set and customized using underlying Java components.

MATLAB Live editor是MATLAB的一个新的互动环境。 它是Broswer based的，即和用户互动的其实是基于Chromium的Browser.基于Browser的技术 能提供给用户更好的互动体验。MATLAB Live Editor是MATHWORKS在 MATLAB R2016a 中和App Designer同期推出的新功能。

Polynomial modeling in 1 or n dimensions

A simple function on LS linear regression with many informative outputs

Jiro's pick this week is non-uniform contourf/imagesc/colorbar by Yuxin Jiang.I discovered this File Exchange entry after seeing a question (note, the question is in Japanese) on MATLAB Answers. The user wanted to create a contourf with a particular color…

Basic bar charts and histogram plots can be customized in important aspects.

Richard is a Consultant at MathWorks focused on the Embedded Coder product for code generation, primarily in the Aerospace
industry.
Richard's pick this week is Ugly Data App by Adam Sifounakis.

Multiple customizations can be applied to tick labels.

基于Thingspeak的天气预警信息推送. Contribute to chouj/WeatherAlertPush development by creating an account on GitHub.

Jiro's pick this week is Whac-a-Mole with Arduino by Sophia Hubscher.



Here's a fun classic arcade game, Whac-a-Mole, built using Arduino. What do I like about it?



The program is nicely written and is very well commented. You can just read the…

A built-in JIDE control can be used in Matlab GUI for IP-address entry/display.

Sean's pick this week is to revisit three prior Picks of the Week. While reading through the 2017 review and reviews for the previous years, I saw a few picks where MathWorks has now incorporated similar functionality into the product.

Greg's pick this week is Example MATLAB class wrapper for a C++ class by Oliver Woodford.

You have a C++ class that you would like to instantiate in MATLAB.
If you are using MATLAB R2019a