VizDeck: Self-Organizing Dashboards for Visual Analytics

Summary: VizDeck enables exploratory analytics on unorganized relational data. It recommends visualizations from statistics, and via a card-game metaphor assembles dashboards in seconds with no programming, enabling sharing and persistence. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4643
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 9.4646634e-05
Overall Rank: 1,932 | 86.75%
DOI: 10.1145/2213836.2213931

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alicia Key (University of Washington)
2. Bill Howe (University of Washington)
3. Daniel Perry (University of Washington)
4. Cecilia Aragon (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{key_sigmod12,
        title = {{VizDeck: Self-Organizing Dashboards for Visual Analytics}},
        author = {Key, Alicia and Howe, Bill and Perry, Daniel and Aragon, Cecilia},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213931},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213931},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
410	SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics	2015	VLDB	0.0001890421
986	Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System	2017	VLDB	0.0001281777
1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011706307
1,634	Rapid Sampling for Visualizations with Ordering Guarantees	2015	VLDB	0.00010163938
2,840	Towards Sustainable Insights or why polygamy is bad for you	2017	CIDR	8.0650295e-05
3,288	I've Seen "Enough": Incrementally Improving Visualizations to Support Rapid Decision Making	2017	VLDB	7.5578177e-05
3,930	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	7.0102082e-05
5,056	The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems	2014	VLDB	6.3823595e-05
6,059	Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines	2018	SIGMOD	5.9915079e-05
10,933	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,418	Efficient Approximation Framework for Attribute Recommendation	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,765	Interactive View Recommendation	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,520	MashMaker: Mashups for the Masses	2007	SIGMOD	7.3502313e-05

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