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New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics

Summary: Tutorial on example-based exploratory querying: users provide result exemplars instead of complex declarative queries, enabling flexible, immediate data understanding. Surveys data-type-specific algorithms for relational, textual, and graph data. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
11689
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
5.9457282e-05
Overall Rank
6,200 | 57.47%
DOI
10.14778/3137765.3137813

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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BibTeX Citation

@article{mottin_vldb17,
        title = {{New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics}},
        author = {Mottin, Davide and Lissandrini, Matteo and Velegrakis, Yannis and Palpanas, Themis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1977--1980},
        doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137813},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137813},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

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4,395 Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview 2020 SIGMOD 6.7271323e-05
6,039 Guided Exploration of User Groups 2020 VLDB 5.9990875e-05
6,303 X2Q: Your Personal Example-based Graph Explorer 2018 VLDB 5.9213518e-05
8,358 Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples 2019 SIGMOD 5.4446041e-05
9,691 A Flexible Framework for Query-oriented Interactive Community Search 2025 VLDB 5.2351259e-05
11,848 Data Pipelines for User Group Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
367 InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00019979463
1,160 BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations 2016 VLDB 0.00011883163
1,192 Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction 2015 VLDB 0.00011740132
1,262 Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011427456
1,862 MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples 1998 VLDB 9.5951515e-05
2,387 S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery 2015 SIGMOD 8.6482009e-05
2,677 Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration 2014 SIGMOD 8.2682753e-05
3,422 SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example 2016 VLDB 7.426997e-05
4,140 Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples 2017 SIGMOD 6.8765495e-05
4,644 Reverse Engineering SPJ-Queries from Examples 2017 PODS 6.5901073e-05
4,733 Interactive Query Synthesis from Input-Output Examples 2017 SIGMOD 6.5335361e-05
6,125 The Minimum Wiener Connector Problem 2015 SIGMOD 5.9675732e-05
7,837 Searching with XQ: the eXemplar Query Search Engine 2014 SIGMOD 5.5344136e-05
8,484 Synthesizing Extraction Rules from User Examples with SEER 2017 SIGMOD 5.4155551e-05
8,485 Diversity based Relevance Feedback for Time Series Search 2014 VLDB 5.4155551e-05
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