http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/h...sing_matrices/
Matrices a la LabView.
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab...nd-arrays.html
Matrices a la MatLab.
Sometimes arguing about the visual representation of data is basically a course in UI and graphics arts.
You can spend literally your entire life arguing which view is the best one. Like any communications - the 'right' one is that one that manages to deliver the right messsage as fast as possible to the audience to which it was intended.