Ziggy: Characterizing Query Results for Data Explorers

Summary: Ziggy identifies characteristic views—small column subsets where result tuples differ from the rest of the database—to help data explorers understand their results. It complements exploration systems by exposing why a selection is unique, guiding iterative refinement. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11261
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.3097575e-05
Overall Rank: 9,630 | 33.08%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Thibault Sellam
2. Martin Kersten

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,338	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.538469e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,151	Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data	2012	VLDB	0.00013634671

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