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: 12611
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.5638044e-05
Overall Rank: 8,175 | 43.19%
DOI: 10.14778/3447689.3447701

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,999	DataChat: An Intuitive and Collaborative Data Analytics Platform	2023	SIGMOD	5.2365238e-05
10,693	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-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	0.00030237174
325	The History of Histograms (abridged)	2003	VLDB	0.00027398081
709	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.00017740603
1,010	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014644808
1,025	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00014600179
1,531	Online Dynamic Reordering for Interactive Data Processing	1999	VLDB	0.00011467334
1,845	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	0.00010339281
2,661	Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine	2010	SIGMOD	8.3582084e-05
3,192	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.4085087e-05
4,361	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.2482689e-05
5,459	QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster	2020	SIGMOD	5.4946579e-05
6,057	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	5.2275892e-05
6,302	Hillview: A trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data	2019	VLDB	5.1166201e-05
7,476	Benchmarking Spreadsheet Systems	2020	SIGMOD	4.7143411e-05
7,582	Senbazuru: A Prototype Spreadsheet Database Management System	2013	VLDB	4.7018948e-05
11,663	Anti-Freeze for Large and Complex Spreadsheets: Asynchronous Formula Computation	2019	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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