Power-Programming with CalcLink and GoogleDocsLink

Andreas Lauschke

Lauschke Consulting

Abstract

This talk will demonstrate some straight-forward power applications exploiting the leverage between Mathematica and OpenOffice Calc through CalcLink. With CalcLink the spreadsheet environment can be used as a tabular front end for the Mathematica kernel, and likewise the kernel with its profusion of features can be called into from the OpenOffice spreadsheet environment with simple function calls. The talk will exemplify how to perform data-intensive and computation-intensive tasks by harnessing on a few top-level commands from CalcLink in real-time.

During the conference, Lauschke Consulting will also launch version 1.0 of their new product GoogleDocsLink, which is a new bidirectional link between Mathematica and GoogleDocs. During the talk several power-programming examples with GoogleDocsLink will be shown.