2010 perspective & plans for 2011
Posted By Yair Altman On January 8, 2011 | 18 Comments
With 2010 behind us and a fresh 2011 ahead, I felt it was time for a short look at this website’s achievements and challenges.
This website was started two years ago, with an article on changing Matlab’s Command Prompt colors [1]. In that article and a few that followed I showed how we can use undocumented Matlab features and functions to achieve stuff that nobody thought were possible. That starting article, with its cprintf followup [2] are still some of the most popular articles on this website to this day.
Interest in this website grew steadily, from several hundred weekly visitors at the beginning, to thousands of unique weekly readers today. To date, 77,000 unique readers have read at least one article here, in some 140,000 different visits. RSS and email subscription has also grown at a steady pace, with about a thousand subscribers today.
[3]The top visit-origin countries were the United States (quite a few of them from MathWorks headquarters itself), Germany, UK, France, India, Canada, Netherlands, Spain, Israel, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden and Australia.
Surprisingly, US visitors only account for about a third of all visits to the website. Apparently Matlab’s use worldwide is more evenly-spread than one would have assumed from the US’s technological dominance. Altogether, readers came from 163 different countries all over the world, including some that surprised me – for example, I did not expect an active Matlab community in Egypt or Vietnam, which came in at #36 and #45 respectively.
[4]For the past two years, I have published weekly articles on this website. I have invested many hours of research, testing and preparation of each and every article. Many additional hours were spent answering hundreds of queries that came in as reader comments or emails.
Unfortunately, the financial income from this website has been nearly non-existent. Apparently almost nobody noticed the “Donate” button or the “Hire me” link (many thanks to the few who did).
I plan to continue publishing, but I can no longer justify a weekly article. I will publish at a more leisurely pace from now on, probably once every two weeks or so.
My planned articles for the upcoming weeks include a series of articles about UDD objects by Donn Shull, R2011a (as far as can be done without violating the pre-release NDA), uiinspect, and several additional series on uitable, menu-bar customizations and JIDE components. Additional topics can be found on my TODO [5] page.
Happy 2011 everybody!
– Yair Altman
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URLs in this post:
[1] changing Matlab’s Command Prompt colors: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/changing-matlab-command-window-colors/
[2] cprintf followup: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/cprintf-display-formatted-color-text-in-command-window/
[3] Image: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/images/2010_Dashboard.png
[4] Image: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/images/2010_Map.png
[5] TODO: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/todo/
[6] 2011 perspective & plans for 2012 : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/2011-perspective
[7] 2013 perspective & plans for 2014 : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/2013-perspective
[8] 2014 perspective & plans for 2015 : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/2014-perspective
[9] 2012 perspective & plans for 2013 : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/2012-perspective
[10] Reasons for undocumented Matlab aspects : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/reasons-for-undocumented-matlab-aspects
[11] Ideas for a new book : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/ideas-for-a-new-book
[12] : http://blog.developpez.com/matlab4geek/
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18 Comments To "2010 perspective & plans for 2011"
#1 Comment By Fab On January 11, 2011 @ 00:14
“Apparently Matlab’s use worldwide is more evenly-spread than one would have assumed from the US’s technological dominance.”
Apparently you just guessed wrong about the US’s technological dominance. 😉
#2 Comment By Malcolm Lidierth On January 12, 2011 @ 07:52
Thanks for all your efforts Yair. You have created a superb site. Fewer posts will have a silver lining for my employer: I’ll get more work done.
#3 Comment By Jason On January 12, 2011 @ 10:26
Perhaps add a premium content section?
#4 Comment By Aurelien Queffurust On January 14, 2011 @ 08:17
Hi Yair,
I have quite the same statistics report.
I started a blog in French for “MATLAB Geek” 2 months ago : [12]
3900 visits at this time:
I have quite the same report, this is my top 20 from Google Analytics:
1. France (maternal language)
2. Tunisia (people can speak French )
3. USA
4. Algeria (people can speak French )
5. Belgium (people can speak French )
6. Morrocco (people can speak French )
7. Colombia
8. Germany
9. Canada
10. Switzerland (people can speak French )
11. UK
12. Netherland
13. Sweden
14. Italy
15. India
16. Turkey
17. Spain
18. Pakistan
19. ISRAEL
20. Egypt
…
31. Australia
…
42. Vietnam
I hope you will keep on writting this blog
Aurélien
#5 Comment By Yair Altman On January 15, 2011 @ 09:00
@Aurélien – I’ve been following your blog from the very start. In fact, I learned of the availability of the R2011a pre-release from you, a few days before I got the email from MathWorks.
I hope you can keep up the relatively high post frequency. There are too few independent Matlab blogs around…
Good luck!
Yair
#6 Comment By Yair Altman On January 15, 2011 @ 09:02
@Malcolm – thanks for the kind words
@Jason – thanks for the idea – I’ll think it over
#7 Comment By Joe Burgel On January 20, 2011 @ 21:38
Yair,
You’ve done a great service to the ML community. Your efforts, although thus far, have not resulted in the requisite gratuity, have never-the-less not gone un-noticed. You’ve made a name for yourself. And that should be considered money in the bank. Your a smart guy and smart guy’s don’t stay poor forever. I have no doubt your day has not yet come. Hang in there and thanks for all you’ve done.
#8 Comment By Yair Altman On January 20, 2011 @ 23:44
thanks Joe
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