Towards Autonomous, Hands-Free Data Exploration

Summary: Proposes Hands‑Free EDA (HFE): an end‑to‑end architecture and prototype that autonomously runs exploratory analyses and generates a short “video” of dataset highlights with minimal or no human input. Provides preliminary experiments showing feasibility. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 349
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 5.1845938e-05
Overall Rank: 9,977 | 31.55%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Ori Bar El (Tel Aviv University)
2. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)
3. Amit Somech (Tel Aviv University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{el_cidr20,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '20},
        title = {{Towards Autonomous, Hands-Free Data Exploration}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {El, Ori Bar and Milo, Tova and Somech, Amit},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,058	Automatically Generating Data Exploration Sessions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2020	SIGMOD	9.2480248e-05
4,395	Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview	2020	SIGMOD	6.7271323e-05
11,013	Towards Automated Cross-domain Exploratory Data Analysis through Large Language Models	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
179	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00026838277
205	Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation with Weak Supervision	2018	VLDB	0.00025235185
410	SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics	2015	VLDB	0.0001890421
489	Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution	2018	VLDB	0.0001761456
846	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013658824
1,392	Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System	2018	VLDB	0.00010936065
1,506	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00010545273
2,264	Exploiting Latent Information in Relational Databases via Word Embedding and Application to Degrees of Disclosure	2019	CIDR	8.8419988e-05
3,381	Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation	2017	CIDR	7.4571963e-05
4,420	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	6.7132724e-05
6,799	REACT: Context-Sensitive Recommendations for Data Analysis	2016	SIGMOD	5.7701345e-05

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