NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews

Summary: NOAH introduces dynamic hierarchical overviews embedded beside spreadsheets for multi-granularity exploration and zooming within DataSpread. Formulae can be issued over data subsets while preserving spreadsheet semantics; user studies show faster, more accurate exploration than Excel or Pivot Table. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12610
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.568186e-05
Overall Rank: 8,174 | 43.14%
DOI: 10.14778/3447689.3447701

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,995	DataChat: An Intuitive and Collaborative Data Analytics Platform	2023	SIGMOD	5.2415551e-05
10,685	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
257	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00030223397
325	The History of Histograms (abridged)	2003	VLDB	0.00027378328
711	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.00017751589
1,009	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014653644
1,023	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00014611863
1,531	Online Dynamic Reordering for Interactive Data Processing	1999	VLDB	0.00011482597
1,840	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	0.0001034905
2,652	Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine	2010	SIGMOD	8.3662745e-05
3,188	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.4117439e-05
4,365	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.2542811e-05
5,452	QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster	2020	SIGMOD	5.4999397e-05
6,054	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	5.2325754e-05
6,298	Hillview: A trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data	2019	VLDB	5.1226987e-05
7,477	Benchmarking Spreadsheet Systems	2020	SIGMOD	4.7188671e-05
7,577	Senbazuru: A Prototype Spreadsheet Database Management System	2013	VLDB	4.7064086e-05
11,658	Anti-Freeze for Large and Complex Spreadsheets: Asynchronous Formula Computation	2019	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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