New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics

Summary: Tutorial on exploratory data analytics; emphasizes example-based methods letting analysts pose goals with simple inputs. It surveys relational, textual, and graph data, and offers algorithms to infer results from examples for quick, flexible insight. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11501
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.1435341e-05
Overall Rank: 6,237 | 56.62%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,540	Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview	2020	SIGMOD	6.1033443e-05
5,472	Guided Exploration of User Groups	2020	VLDB	5.4888146e-05
6,011	X2Q: Your Personal Example-based Graph Explorer	2018	VLDB	5.2415551e-05
8,344	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.5428111e-05
10,582	A Flexible Framework for Query-oriented Interactive Community Search	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,653	Data Pipelines for User Group Analytics	2019	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
420	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00023719065
1,459	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011889802
1,469	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.00011836053
1,509	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011612727
1,608	MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples	1998	VLDB	0.00011151257
2,576	S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery	2015	SIGMOD	8.5112408e-05
2,733	The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems [Vision Paper]	2014	VLDB	8.2078862e-05
3,070	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	7.6137064e-05
3,684	SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example	2016	VLDB	6.8465042e-05
4,636	Reverse Engineering SPJ-Queries from Examples	2017	PODS	6.0303761e-05
4,980	Interactive Query Synthesis from Input-Output Examples	2017	SIGMOD	5.7873101e-05
5,208	Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples	2017	SIGMOD	5.6296265e-05
7,157	The Minimum Wiener Connector Problem	2015	SIGMOD	4.8144713e-05
7,295	Searching with XQ: the eXemplar Query Search Engine	2014	SIGMOD	4.7728968e-05
8,613	Synthesizing Extraction Rules from User Examples with SEER	2017	SIGMOD	4.4849545e-05
8,614	Diversity based Relevance Feedback for Time Series Search	2014	VLDB	4.4849545e-05

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