Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data: Principles and Promise

Summary: Articulates design principles for fast-data analytics that prioritize scarce human attention—return fewer results, enable iterative workflows, and “filter fast” to compute less. Implements MacroBase, a streaming engine combining feature transforms, classification, and summarization to produce interpretable, prioritized explanations of key behaviors in high-rate data. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 283
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 11,756 | 18.22%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
316	NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00027988668
2,126	MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data	2017	SIGMOD	9.4887794e-05
2,154	DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation	2019	VLDB	9.4208667e-05
8,633	Demonstration: MacroBase, A Fast Data Analysis Engine	2017	SIGMOD	4.4802036e-05
11,629	Leveraging Organizational Resources to Adapt Models to New Data Modalities	2020	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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142	TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World	2003	CIDR	0.00041725802
210	Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database	2015	VLDB	0.0003404384
658	Towards a Unified Architecture for in-RDBMS Analytics	2012	SIGMOD	0.00018506577
2,126	MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data	2017	SIGMOD	9.4887794e-05
2,402	Causality and Explanations in Databases	2014	VLDB	8.8928361e-05
4,576	The Missing Piece in Complex Analytics: Low Latency, Scalable Model Management and Serving with Velox	2015	CIDR	6.0721464e-05

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