FEDEX: An Explainability Framework for Data Exploration Steps

Summary: FEDEX, explainability framework for data exploration, pinpoints interesting rows in each dataframe. Interestingness is each row's contribution to column-level interestingness via diversity and exceptionality; FEDEX uses semantically related sets to explain row correlations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13085
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.4709725e-05
Overall Rank: 8,184 | 43.86%
DOI: 10.14778/3565838.3565841

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Authors

1. Daniel Deutch (Tel Aviv University)
2. Amir Gilad (Duke University)
3. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)
4. Amit Mualem (Tel Aviv University)
5. Amit Somech (Bar-Ilan University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{deutch_vldb22,
        title = {{FEDEX: An Explainability Framework for Data Exploration Steps}},
        author = {Deutch, Daniel and Gilad, Amir and Milo, Tova and Mualem, Amit and Somech, Amit},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {13},
        pages = {3854--3868},
        doi = {10.14778/3565838.3565841},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3565838.3565841},
        year = {2022}
}

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17	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00059843817
159	CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies	2004	SIGMOD	0.00028129426
191	Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries	2013	VLDB	0.00026096009
385	Why Not?	2009	SIGMOD	0.00019455743
410	SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics	2015	VLDB	0.0001890421
663	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015174751
806	Provenance for Aggregate Queries	2011	PODS	0.00013890398
846	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013658824
2,058	Automatically Generating Data Exploration Sessions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2020	SIGMOD	9.2480248e-05
2,744	Auto-Suggest: Learning-to-Recommend Data Preparation Steps Using Data Science Notebooks	2020	SIGMOD	8.1781662e-05
3,132	Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data	2017	SIGMOD	7.7246394e-05
3,984	Learning User Preferences By Adaptive Pairwise Comparison	2015	VLDB	6.9739437e-05
4,249	Exploratory Keyword Search with Interactive Input	2015	SIGMOD	6.8042877e-05
4,602	Provenance for Natural Language Queries	2017	VLDB	6.6107638e-05
4,628	QuickInsights: Quick and Automatic Discovery of Insights from Multi-Dimensional Data	2019	SIGMOD	6.5962102e-05
4,638	Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances	2019	SIGMOD	6.5919801e-05
4,746	On Detecting Cherry-picked Trendlines	2020	VLDB	6.5256876e-05
4,747	High-Level Why-Not Explanations using Ontologies	2015	PODS	6.5252099e-05
5,396	Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	6.2329373e-05
6,039	Guided Exploration of User Groups	2020	VLDB	5.9990875e-05
6,425	MapRat: Meaningful Explanation, Interactive Exploration and Geo-Visualization of Collaborative Ratings	2012	VLDB	5.8810029e-05
7,399	ExRank: An Exploratory Ranking Interface	2016	VLDB	5.6255964e-05
9,830	PCOR: Private Contextual Outlier Release via Differentially Private Search	2021	SIGMOD	5.2125702e-05
9,831	ExTuNe: Explaining Tuple Non-conformance	2020	SIGMOD	5.2125702e-05

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