Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality

Summary: Toward interpretable data analysis in databases, the work blends explanations for result interpretation and troubleshooting with causal reasoning for prescriptive analytics via counterfactuals. Bridges DB tech with ML/statistics for actionable explanations and counterfactuals. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12891
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.0081626e-05
Overall Rank: 6,565 | 54.33%
DOI: 10.14778/3554821.3554902

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sudeepa Roy

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

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5,826	Why Not Yet: Fixing a Top-k Ranking that Is Not Fair to Individuals	2023	VLDB	5.3124507e-05
6,153	On Data-Aware Global Explainability of Graph Neural Networks	2023	VLDB	5.1829258e-05
9,644	Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset	2025	SIGMOD	4.3109001e-05
10,581	Causal DAG Summarization	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

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31	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.0007857786
214	Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries	2013	VLDB	0.0003363692
597	Computing Iceberg Queries Efficiently	1998	VLDB	0.00019475592
868	Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs	2011	VLDB	0.00015789681
942	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015155714
1,099	Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes	2015	VLDB	0.00014096312
1,106	Provenance for Aggregate Queries	2011	PODS	0.0001398766
1,371	Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012323502
1,449	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	0.0001193267
1,461	Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment	2000	VLDB	0.0001188499
1,646	Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis	2013	CIDR	0.00011036992
2,649	Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases	2016	VLDB	8.3719123e-05
3,104	Computing Local Sensitivities of Counting Queries with Joins	2020	SIGMOD	7.5578613e-05
4,614	Interactive Summarization and Exploration of Top Aggregate Query Answers	2018	VLDB	6.0467204e-05
5,128	CAPE: Explaining Outliers by Counterbalancing	2019	VLDB	5.6758584e-05
5,191	Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances	2019	SIGMOD	5.6378768e-05
5,607	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	5.4137872e-05
5,691	Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	5.3684557e-05
5,733	Explaining Wrong Queries Using Small Examples	2019	SIGMOD	5.3483446e-05
6,124	iQCAR: inter-Query Contention Analyzer for Data Analytics Frameworks	2019	SIGMOD	5.1988046e-05
6,546	Properties of Inconsistency Measures for Databases	2021	SIGMOD	5.0185588e-05
7,066	On Multiple Semantics for Declarative Database Repairs	2020	SIGMOD	4.8445108e-05
7,118	QAGView: Interactively Summarizing High-Valued Aggregate Query Answers	2018	SIGMOD	4.8262997e-05
7,251	Learning to Sample: Counting with Complex Queries	2020	VLDB	4.7890519e-05
7,457	Selectivity Functions of Range Queries are Learnable*	2022	SIGMOD	4.7247191e-05
8,066	Optimizing Iceberg Queries with Complex Joins	2017	SIGMOD	4.5937212e-05
8,212	I-Rex: An Interactive Relational Query Explainer for SQL	2020	VLDB	4.5580125e-05
8,721	Aggregated Deletion Propagation for Counting Conjunctive Query Answers	2021	VLDB	4.4608778e-05
8,830	LensXPlain: Visualizing and Explaining Contributing Subsets for Aggregate Query Answers	2019	VLDB	4.4404336e-05
8,954	Understanding Queries by Conditional Instances	2022	SIGMOD	4.4221863e-05
9,703	CaJaDE: Explaining Query Results by Augmenting Provenance with Context	2022	VLDB	4.3005882e-05
9,766	DPXPlain: Privately Explaining Aggregate Query Answers	2023	VLDB	4.2856106e-05
9,779	iQCAR: A Demonstration of an Inter-Query Contention Analyzer for Cluster Computing Frameworks	2018	SIGMOD	4.2856106e-05
11,616	MuSe: Multiple Deletion Semantics for Data Repair	2020	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,666	RATest: Explaining Wrong Relational Queries Using Small Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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