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.
@article{arxiv.0803.0166,
title = {Spreadsheet Validation and Analysis through Content Visualization},
author = {Richard Brath and Michael Peters},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.0166},
year = {2008}
}