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Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System

Summary: Northstar: an Interactive Data Science platform that rethinks the analytics stack to democratize data science with intuitive visual interfaces and automated chores. It provides built-in safeguards against false discoveries so domain experts can focus on modeling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11915
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
0.00010936065
Overall Rank
1,392 | 90.46%
DOI
10.14778/3229863.3240493

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BibTeX Citation

@article{kraska_vldb18,
        title = {{Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System}},
        author = {Kraska, Tim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2150--2164},
        doi = {10.14778/3229863.3240493},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3229863.3240493},
        year = {2018}
}

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926 Improving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search through Learned Adaptive Early Termination 2020 SIGMOD 0.00013181732
1,004 Democratizing Data Science through Interactive Curation of ML Pipelines 2019 SIGMOD 0.00012701932
1,121 ARDA: Automatic Relational Data Augmentation for Machine Learning 2020 VLDB 0.00012093059
1,756 SystemDS: A Declarative Machine Learning System for the End-to-End Data Science Lifecycle 2020 CIDR 9.8172465e-05
2,058 Automatically Generating Data Exploration Sessions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2020 SIGMOD 9.2480248e-05
3,272 VolcanoML: Speeding up End-to-End AutoML via Scalable Search Space Decomposition 2021 VLDB 7.5775321e-05
4,212 Data Series Progressive Similarity Search with Probabilistic Quality Guarantees 2020 SIGMOD 6.8283344e-05
4,395 Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview 2020 SIGMOD 6.7271323e-05
7,129 Marviq: Quality-Aware Geospatial Visualization of Range-Selection Queries Using Materialization 2020 SIGMOD 5.694968e-05
7,609 Ease.ml/ci and Ease.ml/meter in Action: Towards Data Management for Statistical Generalization 2019 VLDB 5.5841767e-05
8,002 Fast and Reliable Missing Data Contingency Analysis with Predicate-Constraints 2020 SIGMOD 5.5085906e-05
8,244 SHiFT: An Efficient, Flexible Search Engine for Transfer Learning 2023 VLDB 5.4587712e-05
8,608 One Size Does Not Fit All: A Bandit-Based Sampler Combination Framework with Theoretical Guarantees 2022 SIGMOD 5.4024561e-05
9,290 Hyper-Tune: Towards Efficient Hyper-parameter Tuning at Scale 2022 VLDB 5.2910774e-05
9,495 Debugging Large-Scale Data Science Pipelines using Dagger 2020 VLDB 5.2616335e-05
9,767 TracEx: Understanding and Analyzing Database Traces 2024 CIDR 5.2212078e-05
9,977 Towards Autonomous, Hands-Free Data Exploration 2020 CIDR 5.1845938e-05
11,013 Towards Automated Cross-domain Exploratory Data Analysis through Large Language Models 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,084 Exploring Exploratory Querying 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,629 Ease.ML: A Lifecycle Management System for MLDev and MLOps 2021 CIDR 5.093636e-05
11,802 Ease.ml/snoopy in Action: Towards Automatic Feasibility Analysis for Machine Learning Application Development 2020 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 33 of 33 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
9 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00077458002
43 The Case for Learned Index Structures 2018 SIGMOD 0.00046060254
185 A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification 2005 SIGMOD 0.00026231189
259 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023119313
327 The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System 1999 SIGMOD 0.00021091539
532 MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System 2013 CIDR 0.00017072641
553 Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00016590619
714 Guided Data Repair 2011 VLDB 0.00014662041
976 The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign 2016 VLDB 0.00012864533
1,064 Scalable Approximate Query Processing With The DBO Engine 2007 SIGMOD 0.00012336248
1,108 Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet 2017 SIGMOD 0.00012145154
1,345 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00011090483
1,736 A Sample-and-Clean Framework for Fast and Accurate Query Processing on Dirty Data 2014 SIGMOD 9.8984415e-05
1,767 IDEBench: A Benchmark for Interactive Data Exploration 2020 SIGMOD 9.805856e-05
1,798 SMOKE: Fine-grained Lineage at Interactive Speed 2018 VLDB 9.7361937e-05
1,827 G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data 2015 SIGMOD 9.6690206e-05
1,995 Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time 2017 SIGMOD 9.3403665e-05
2,029 Ease.ml: Towards Multi-tenant Resource Sharing for Machine Learning Workloads 2018 VLDB 9.2843642e-05
2,151 An Architecture for Recycling Intermediates in a Column-store 2009 SIGMOD 9.0784444e-05
2,185 Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets 2016 SIGMOD 9.0026006e-05
2,316 Evaluating End-to-End Optimization for Data Analytics Applications in Weld 2018 VLDB 8.7596739e-05
3,258 Controlling False Discoveries During Interactive Data Exploration 2017 SIGMOD 7.5897862e-05
3,370 Revisiting Reuse for Approximate Query Processing 2017 VLDB 7.4700891e-05
4,345 ASAP: Prioritizing Attention via Time Series Smoothing 2017 VLDB 6.7513816e-05
4,864 SeeDB: Automatically Generating Query Visualizations 2014 VLDB 6.4736789e-05
4,926 Adaptive Sampling for Rapidly Matching Histograms 2018 VLDB 6.4428362e-05
5,707 FluxQuery: An Execution Framework for Highly Interactive Query Workloads 2016 SIGMOD 6.1143236e-05
5,947 Revisiting Reuse in Main Memory Database Systems 2017 SIGMOD 6.0323707e-05
6,511 Data Tweening: Incremental Visualization of Data Transforms 2017 VLDB 5.8567275e-05
6,523 Combining Design and Performance in a Data Visualization Management System 2017 CIDR 5.8518572e-05
6,819 Estimating the Impact of Unknown Unknowns on Aggregate Query Results 2016 SIGMOD 5.7635226e-05
9,206 A Data Quality Metric (DQM): How to Estimate the Number of Undetected Errors in Data Sets 2017 VLDB 5.3058708e-05
11,991 Safe Visual Data Exploration 2017 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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