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: 12798
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.4119882e-05
Overall Rank: 8,511 | 41.61%
DOI: 10.14778/3447689.3447701

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Authors

1. Sajjadur Rahman (Megagon Labs)
2. Mangesh Bendre (Visa)
3. Yuyang Liu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
4. Shichu Zhu (Google)
5. Zhaoyuan Su (University of California Irvine)
6. Karrie Karahalios (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
7. Aditya G. Parameswaran (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{rahman_vldb21,
        title = {{NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews}},
        author = {Rahman, Sajjadur and Bendre, Mangesh and Liu, Yuyang and Zhu, Shichu and Su, Zhaoyuan and Karahalios, Karrie and Parameswaran, Aditya G.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {6},
        pages = {970--983},
        doi = {10.14778/3447689.3447701},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3447689.3447701},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,955	DataChat: An Intuitive and Collaborative Data Analytics Platform	2023	SIGMOD	5.7303405e-05
10,933	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-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	The History of Histograms (abridged)	2003	VLDB	0.00023154793
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
846	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013658824
1,149	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.0001194728
1,506	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00010545273
1,680	Online Dynamic Reordering for Interactive Data Processing	1999	VLDB	0.00010024295
2,559	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	8.4156672e-05
2,946	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.93259e-05
3,249	Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine	2010	SIGMOD	7.5977673e-05
4,046	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.9392871e-05
4,721	QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster	2020	SIGMOD	6.5444379e-05
5,976	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	6.0219844e-05
6,028	Hillview: A trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data	2019	VLDB	6.0019322e-05
7,389	Benchmarking Spreadsheet Systems	2020	SIGMOD	5.6266966e-05
7,618	Senbazuru: A Prototype Spreadsheet Database Management System	2013	VLDB	5.5811128e-05
11,853	Anti-Freeze for Large and Complex Spreadsheets: Asynchronous Formula Computation	2019	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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