Via examples in this section, we illustrate how the spreadsheet paradigm facilitates data exploration by enabling researchers to visually compare different values in the cells, perform simple algebraic operations between the values, construct different views and animate the visualizations. We first show how the spreadsheet layout enables comparisons between cells. We examine two techniques for performing this layout operation--direct manipulation and loading a command script. We then show how users can use the spreadsheet for prototyping visualization representations. Finally, we show how users can take advantage of the properties of the spreadsheet to perform operations between cells. By equipping the user with a set of operations, the user can explore datasets in their unique situations by combining the operations in various ways.