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Using Google Docs as a data mashup platform - Eigentlich witzig: Google Docs als neuer Mashup Editor.

I thought I’d take the opportunity to update that original mashup with a few tricks I’ve learned since then. In part as a teaching example, I came up with a recipe that illustrates a lot of functionality many people are unaware of, in a self-contained and hopefully coherent way – how to import data into a spreadsheet, how to write an application script, and how to use a spreadsheet as a database.