Poor Usability in Data Processing

Summary: Argues that adoption often favors usability over correctness: practitioners choose less principled 2010s systems and spreadsheets despite flawed semantics. Applies a usability lens to explain why best-of-class DBs lose out and calls for usability-focused research. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 235
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
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Overall Rank: 13,564 | 6.94%
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Authors

1. Adam Marcus (GoDaddy; Locu)

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@inproceedings{marcus_cidr15,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '15},
        title = {{Poor Usability in Data Processing}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Marcus, Adam},
        year = {2015}
}

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