Dagger: A Data (not code) Debugger
Summary: Dagger: an end-to-end data (not code) debugger exposing data-centric primitives to perform interactive what‑if analyses and targeted fixes on script-based analytics pipelines. Unique for abstracting transformations and lineage-aware interventions to speed diagnosis/repair; prototype deployed in Data Civilizer 2.0 for clinical pipelines. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. El Kindi Rezig (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Lei Cao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Giovanni Simonini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 4. Maxime Schoemans (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
- 5. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 6. Mourad Ouzzani (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- 7. Nan Tang (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- 8. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{rezig_cidr20,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '20},
title = {{Dagger: A Data (not code) Debugger}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Rezig, El Kindi and Cao, Lei and Simonini, Giovanni and Schoemans, Maxime and Madden, Samuel and Ouzzani, Mourad and Tang, Nan and Stonebraker, Michael},
year = {2020}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,488 | Horizon: Scalable Dependency-driven Data Cleaning | 2021 | VLDB | 6.668457e-05 |
| 6,250 | Lightweight Inspection of Data Preprocessing in Native Machine Learning Pipelines | 2021 | CIDR | 5.9418015e-05 |
| 7,068 | DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.7119157e-05 |
| 7,093 | DICE: Data Discovery by Example | 2021 | VLDB | 5.7056625e-05 |
| 9,245 | Towards Observability for Production Machine Learning Pipelines | 2022 | VLDB | 5.2992628e-05 |
| 9,399 | Glean: Structured Extractions from Templatic Documents | 2021 | VLDB | 5.2755515e-05 |
| 9,495 | Debugging Large-Scale Data Science Pipelines using Dagger | 2020 | VLDB | 5.2616335e-05 |
| 10,131 | Towards Scalable Visual Data Wrangling via Direct Manipulation | 2026 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,054 | Buckaroo: A Direct Manipulation Visual Data Wrangler | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,512 | Towards Observability for Machine Learning Pipelines | 2022 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,435 | Data Cleaning in the Era of Data Science: Challenges and Opportunities | 2021 | CIDR | - |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,349 | Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00011069122 |
| 1,670 | MISTIQUE: A System to Store and Query Model Intermediates for Model Diagnosis | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00010045615 |
| 1,946 | OrpheusDB: Bolt-on Versioning for Relational Databases | 2017 | VLDB | 9.4334506e-05 |
| 2,235 | Decibel: The Relational Dataset Branching System | 2016 | VLDB | 8.8913373e-05 |
| 3,146 | HELIX: Accelerating Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning | 2018 | VLDB | 7.7091591e-05 |
| 3,869 | Smile: A System to Support Machine Learning on EEG Data at Scale | 2019 | VLDB | 7.0609879e-05 |
| 8,242 | Data Civilizer 2.0: A Holistic Framework for Data Preparation and Analytics | 2019 | VLDB | 5.459288e-05 |
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