Extreme Visualization: Squeezing a Billion Records into a Million Pixels

Summary: Extends interactive visual queries to billions of records using atomic, aggregated, and density plots for scalable visualization. Proposes coordinated windows and fast aggregation to enable sense-making in billion-record data, blending information visualization with DBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4034
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 7.2858819e-05
Overall Rank: 3,584 | 75.42%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376618

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shneiderman_sigmod08,
        title = {{Extreme Visualization: Squeezing a Billion Records into a Million Pixels}},
        author = {Shneiderman, Ben},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376618},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376618},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,098	Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration	2010	SIGMOD	0.00012179025
6,028	Hillview: A trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data	2019	VLDB	6.0019322e-05
9,757	Faster Visual Analytics through Pixel-Perfect Aggregation	2014	VLDB	5.2251708e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,889	Fast Algorithms For Hierarchical Range Histogram Construction	2002	PODS	6.4600939e-05
4,957	General purpose database summarization	2005	VLDB	6.4288409e-05

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