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Matlab has its own community. There have been 25,000 answers in the last 30 days. [1]. It has 100,000 users. [2] That stackoverflow metric is not great. It
by chillingeffect 13y ago
Matlab has its own community.
There have been 25,000 answers in the last 30 days. [1].
It has 100,000 users. [2]
That stackoverflow metric is not great. It is semi-useless.
[1] http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/activities http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/activities
[2] http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/about/answers/ http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/about/answers/
- jofer 13y agoAnd thus the semi-useless title :) I'm quite aware of MatlabCentral, and it's a _very_ active community. Similarly, there are other forums for scipy, etc (mostly mailing lists). Traditionally, this is where the majority of questions were answered in the scientific python community, though lately stackoverflow has gained popularity. I wasn't claiming it was a complete sample. I used it as an unbiased random sample, but it's obviously not completely unbiased, either. I do think it's fair to say that usage python as a whole (of which the scientific python community is a very small part) is larger than matlab usage as a whole. That alone is not a good reason to choose a tool, but it does have some advantages. That's the point I was trying to get at.