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Spreadsheets are known to be error-prone. Over the last decade, research has been done to determine the causes of the high rate of errors in spreadsheets. This paper examines the added value of a spreadsheet tool (PerfectXL) that visualizes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Simone Schalkwijk , Felienne Hermans , Michiel van der Ven , Hans Duits

Spreadsheets in financial markets are frequently used as database, calculator and reporting application combined. This paper describes an alternative approach in which spreadsheet design and database technology have been brought together in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Brian Sentence

When spreadsheets are filled freely by knowledge workers, they can contain rather unstructured content. For humans and especially machines it becomes difficult to interpret such data properly. Therefore, spreadsheets are often converted to…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Markus Schröder , Christian Jilek , Michael Schulze , Andreas Dengel

Background. Within the software industry, it is commonly estimated that software professionals invest a substantial portion of their work hours in the process of understanding existing systems. In this context, an ineffective technical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Fernando Padoan , Ronnie de Souza Santos , Rodrigo Pessoa Medeiros

This paper explores capabilities of Vision Language Models on spreadsheet comprehension. We propose three self-supervised challenges with corresponding evaluation metrics to comprehensively evaluate VLMs on Optical Character Recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Shiyu Xia , Junyu Xiong , Haoyu Dong , Jianbo Zhao , Yuzhang Tian , Mengyu Zhou , Yeye He , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Lately, many companies are using Mobile Workforce Management technologies combined with information collected by sensors from mobile devices in order to improve their business processes. Even for small companies, the information that needs…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Alejandro Cortiñas , Miguel R. Luaces , Tirso V. Rodeiro

A central challenge in science is to understand how systems behaviors emerge from complex networks. This often requires aggregating, reusing, and integrating heterogeneous information. Supplementary spreadsheets to articles are a key data…

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…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Richard Brath , Michael Peters

The analysis of structured complex data, such as clustered graph based datasets, usually applies a variety of visual representation techniques and formats. The majority of currently available tools and approaches to exploratory…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Vladimir Guchev , Paolo Buono , Cristina Gena

This report documents the results found through surveys and interviews on how visualizations help the employees in their workspace. The objectives of this study were to get in-depth knowledge on what prepares an employee to have the right…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Rajath Chikkatur Srinivasa , Supriya Arun , Lauren James , Ying Zhu

In traditional usability studies, researchers talk to users of tools to understand their needs and challenges. Insights gained via such interviews offer context, detail, and background. Due to costs in time and money, we are beginning to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Kelly Mack , John Lee , Kevin Chang , Karrie Karahalios , Aditya Parameswaran

Readability criteria have been addressed as a measurement of the quality of graph visualizations. In this paper, we argue that readability criteria are necessary but not sufficient. We propose a new kind of criteria, namely faithfulness, to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Quan Hoang Nguyen , Peter Eades

Modern display environments offer great potential for involving multiple users in presentations, discussions, and data analysis sessions. By showing multiple views on multiple displays, information exchange can be improved, several…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Christian Eichner , Heidrun Schumann , Christian Tominski

Data Visualization has become an important aspect of big data analytics and has grown in sophistication and variety. We specifically identify the need for an analytical framework for data visualization with textual information. Data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Cherilyn Conner , Jim Samuel , Andrey Kretinin , Yana Samuel , Lee Nadeau

Constructing latent vector representation for nodes in a network through embedding models has shown its practicality in many graph analysis applications, such as node classification, clustering, and link prediction. However, despite the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Quan Li , Kristanto Sean Njotoprawiro , Hammad Haleem , Qiaoan Chen , Chris Yi , Xiaojuan Ma

Although many tools have been presented in the research literature of software visualization, there is little evidence of their adoption. To choose a suitable visualization tool, practitioners need to analyze various characteristics of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Leonel Merino , Ekaterina Kozlova , Oscar Nierstrasz , Daniel Weiskopf

This paper presents the arguments and supporting business metrics for Enterprise Spreadsheet Management to be seen as a necessary good. These arguments are divided into a summary of external business drivers that make it necessary and the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Ralph Baxter

Software metrics capture information about software development processes and products. These metrics support decision-making, e.g., in team management or dependency selection. However, existing metrics tools measure only a snapshot of a…

Machine learning practitioners often need to compare multiple models to select the best one for their application. However, current methods of comparing models fall short because they rely on aggregate metrics that can be difficult to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Liudas Panavas , Tarik Crnovrsanin , Racquel Fygenson , Eamon Conway , Derek Millard , Norbou Buchler , Cody Dunne

Dimension reduction and data visualization aim to project a high-dimensional dataset to a low-dimensional space while capturing the intrinsic structures in the data. It is an indispensable part of modern data science, and many dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-26 Rong Ma , Eric D. Sun , James Zou