Description (70 words)
Today's online documents are like yesterday's paper—flat, lifeless, inactive. Instead, the
Computable Document Format (CDF) puts easy-to-author interactivity at its core, empowering readers
to drive content and generate results live.
Launched by the Wolfram Group, the CDF standard is a computation-powered knowledge container—as
everyday as a document, but as interactive as an app.
Adopting CDF gives ideas a broad communication pipeline—accelerating research, education,
technical development, and progress.
Examples
Note: To interact with these examples, first download and install the free Wolfram CDF Player.
Consulting Reports
Let your clients explore scenarios and engage with results through
interactive charts powered by real-time computation. Embed code »
Investment Statements
Make every report or statement interactive with real-time computation,
enabling customers to test multidimensional "what if" scenarios.
Management Presentations
Bring your analyses to life: support better decision making through interactive
visualizations—powered by real-time computation.
Automated Reports
Easily build a platform that generates reports containing live, interactive
elements with real-time data—powered by computation.
Infographics and Blogs
Turn infographics into infoapps using always-current data and interactive
graphics—powered by real-time computation. Embed code »
Textbooks
Easy-to-deploy courseware that computes and presents results as
students drive—produced directly by authors in a
single, easy-to-use tool for typesetting, data, and interactivity. Embed code »
Journal Articles
Publish research with easy-to-author interactive diagrams that let readers
substantiate evidence using the power of real-time computation.
Knowledge Apps
Anyone can easily create and publish computation-powered interactive
content to illustrate concepts and ideas.
Data Applications
Rapidly develop computationally intensive business-intelligence applications
with superior user-experience and deployment flexibility.
Use Cases
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Over 7,000 knowledge apps authored by researchers, teachers, students, and industry professionals, all powered and made instantly interactive in your browser with CDF technology.
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