VizQL: A Language for Query, Analysis and Visualization

Summary: VizQL unifies query, analysis and visualization in a single declarative language, enabling unlimited visual expressions and fast view switching. Compiler translates VizQL to SQL/MDX, enabling interactive analysis over relational/datacube sources and eliminating separate reporting steps. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3862
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 8.5090714e-05
Overall Rank: 2,489 | 82.93%
DOI: 10.1145/1142473.1142560

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Pat Hanrahan (Tableau Research)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hanrahan_sigmod06,
        title = {{VizQL: A Language for Query, Analysis and Visualization}},
        author = {Hanrahan, Pat},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '06},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1142473.1142560},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142473.1142560},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
2,136	Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System	2014	VLDB	9.1126926e-05
3,930	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	7.0102082e-05
4,809	Synthesizing Natural Language to Visualization (NL2VIS) Benchmarks from NL2SQL Benchmarks	2021	SIGMOD	6.4984309e-05
5,737	Kyrix: Interactive Visual Data Exploration at Scale	2019	CIDR	6.1049023e-05
6,737	Towards Democratizing Relational Data Visualization	2019	SIGMOD	5.7875328e-05
9,629	Auto-BI: Automatically Build BI-Models Leveraging Local Join Prediction and Global Schema Graph	2023	VLDB	5.2434488e-05
10,773	Physical Visualization Design: Decoupling Interface and System Design	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,782	(Demo) Physical Visualization Design	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,831	ARQuery: Hallucinating Analytics over Real-World Data using Augmented Reality	2019	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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

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