Computational Journalism: A Call to Arms to Database Researchers

Summary: Proposes systems for mass collaboration between investigative journalists and citizens to support evidence aggregation, provenance, privacy-aware sharing, and scalable ingestion. Casts these as concrete database research challenges and a social-impact call to arms for the DB community. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 148
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.9449851e-05
Overall Rank: 4,033 | 72.34%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sarah Cohen (Duke University)
2. Chengkai Li (University of Texas)
3. Jun Yang (Duke University)
4. Cong Yu (Google; University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cohen_cidr11,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '11},
        title = {{Computational Journalism: A Call to Arms to Database Researchers}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Cohen, Sarah and Li, Chengkai and Yang, Jun and Yu, Cong},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,094	Efficient Spatial Sampling of Large Geographical Tables	2012	SIGMOD	7.765466e-05
3,127	Toward Computational Fact-Checking	2014	VLDB	7.7308958e-05
5,343	Crowdsourcing Applications and Platforms: A Data Management Perspective	2011	VLDB	6.259258e-05
5,937	Perturbation Analysis of Database Queries	2016	VLDB	6.0350628e-05
6,919	Data In, Fact Out: Automated Monitoring of Facts by FactWatcher	2014	VLDB	5.7391146e-05
7,199	Learned Data-aware Image Representations of Line Charts for Similarity Search	2023	SIGMOD	5.6759927e-05
7,275	Efficient Evaluation of Object-Centric Exploration Queries for Visualization	2015	VLDB	5.658426e-05
7,393	Maverick: Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	5.6261241e-05
9,282	Maverick: A System for Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs	2018	VLDB	5.2929162e-05
9,295	Combating Fake News: A Data Management and Mining Perspective	2019	VLDB	5.2906228e-05
11,663	To Intervene or Not To Intervene: Cost based Intervention for Combating Fake News	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,171	iCheck: Computationally Combating "Lies, D-ned Lies, and Statistics"	2014	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
866	Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013519288

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