Spreadsheet Validation and Analysis through Content Visualization

TL;DR

This paper introduces Oculus Excel Visualizer, a tool that enhances spreadsheet analysis by visualizing data directly within Excel, leveraging existing layout and formatting for better validation and insight.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel visualization tool that integrates directly with Excel, enabling intuitive content validation and analysis without altering existing spreadsheet formats.

Findings

Improves data validation efficiency

Enhances understanding of large spreadsheet data

Leverages existing layout for intuitive visualization

Abstract

Visualizing spreadsheet content provides analytic insight and visual validation of large amounts of spreadsheet data. Oculus Excel Visualizer is a point and click data visualization experiment which directly visualizes Excel data and re-uses the layout and formatting already present in the spreadsheet.