The USGS is interested in building a new set of tools that will allow them to visualize their earthquake data. They collect a massive amount of data from all over the world each day, but they lack a ...

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We are using nested functions as a more efficient approach to Matlab's classes. I noticed that these nested functions do not get listed in this tool's output. It only picks up the main function name, ...

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