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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
350
Venue
CIDR
Year
2020
Pagerank
4.2751057e-05
Overall Rank
9,830 | 31.62%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,993 Automatically Generating Data Exploration Sessions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2020 SIGMOD 9.8453334e-05
4,540 Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview 2020 SIGMOD 6.1033443e-05
10,784 Towards Automated Cross-domain Exploratory Data Analysis through Large Language Models 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

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206 Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases 2015 VLDB 0.00034667032
254 Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation with Weak Supervision 2018 VLDB 0.00030540555
460 SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics 2015 VLDB 0.00022516069
754 Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution 2018 VLDB 0.00017117211
1,009 SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL 2011 VLDB 0.00014653644
1,023 Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration 2013 CIDR 0.00014611863
1,251 Exploiting Latent Information in Relational Databases via Word Embedding and Application to Degrees of Disclosure 2019 CIDR 0.00013035649
1,350 Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System 2018 VLDB 0.00012431059
3,617 Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation 2017 CIDR 6.9091789e-05
4,758 Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration 2019 VLDB 5.9422515e-05
5,785 REACT: Context-Sensitive Recommendations for Data Analysis 2016 SIGMOD 5.3284468e-05
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