2.4.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

2.4.2.1 Elegant operations on matrix rows and columns

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The Mathematica tutorial has a section ’Basic Matrix Operations’, describing operations like transpose, inverse and determinant. These operations all work on entire matrices. I am missing a ...

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answered by Mr.Wizard https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=121 61 votes

2.4.2.2 Positioning axes labels

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I need to change the position of my axes labels such that the y-axis label is in the middle and parallel to the y-axis. I’d also like the x-axis label to be in the middle of the x-axis rather than ...

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answered by Virgil https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27697 16 votes

2.4.2.3 How to create word clouds?

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Word clouds are rather useless fancy and visually appealing plots, where words are plotted with different sizes according to their frequency in a corpus. Many applications exist out there (Wordle, ...

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answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 119 votes

2.4.2.4 How do I clear all user defined symbols?

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Is there some way to do this other than going to Evaluation -> Quit kernel and firing a new one up?

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2.4.2.5 What does # mean in Mathematica?

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I asked Mathematica to compute the following

Solve[c (1-x)^2-x^(1/4) == 0, x]

and it returned this:

  x = Root[#1^8 c^4 - 8 #1^7 c^4 + 28 #1^6 c^4 - 56 #1^5 c^4 

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2.4.2.6 How to manipulate 2D plots?

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When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details ...

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answered by István Zachar https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89 154 votes

2.4.2.7 How to make an inkblot?

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How to effectively create a polygon that looks like a realistic inkblot? So far, I could come up with this (borrowing from Ed Pegg Jr.’s Rorschach demonstration):

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answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57 51 votes