DataLens: Making a Good First Impression

Summary: DataLens selects representative first-page items without sorting or ranking, addressing the lack of inherent ranking in typical DB results. It enables hierarchical drill-down to similar items with dynamic updates of representatives as queries evolve. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4282
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.2343812e-05
Overall Rank: 9,710 | 33.39%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559997

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Bin Liu (University of Michigan)
2. H.V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liu_sigmod09,
        title = {{DataLens: Making a Good First Impression}},
        author = {Liu, Bin and Jagadish, H.V.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559997},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559997},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,881	Using Trees to Depict a Forest	2009	VLDB	7.0490549e-05
8,936	Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data	2010	VLDB	5.3483178e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
31	BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases	1996	SIGMOD	0.00050347119
635	Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries	1999	VLDB	0.00015527042
1,725	Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation	2007	SIGMOD	9.9197083e-05
2,204	Automatic Categorization of Query Results	2004	SIGMOD	8.959723e-05
5,774	DataScope: Viewing Database Contents in Google Maps' Way	2007	VLDB	6.0923864e-05

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