Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration

Summary: Explore-by-Example introduces AIDE, an automatic IDE for exploration that steers users toward regions via sample feedback to predict queries. It delivers accurate conjunctive-query predictions with minimal user effort and fast iterations, cutting exploration time vs manual search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4894
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 7.6137064e-05
Overall Rank: 3,070 | 78.65%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2610523

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1,459	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011889802
1,552	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011408814
3,546	Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data	2017	SIGMOD	6.9870745e-05
3,878	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	6.6731435e-05
4,635	Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs	2019	SIGMOD	6.033398e-05
4,758	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	5.9422515e-05
5,473	Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis	2020	SIGMOD	5.4885366e-05
6,237	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1435341e-05
6,407	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.076547e-05
6,444	Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines	2018	SIGMOD	5.059132e-05
8,344	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.5428111e-05
8,590	Exploratory Training: When Annotators Learn About Data	2023	SIGMOD	4.4896282e-05
9,467	Database Gyms	2023	CIDR	4.3346412e-05
9,600	Optimizing Dataflow Systems for Scalable Interactive Visualization	2024	SIGMOD	4.3177432e-05
9,696	The Data Interaction Game	2018	SIGMOD	4.3023337e-05
10,366	An Adaptive Benchmark for Modeling User Exploration of Large Datasets	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,582	Interactively Discovering and Ranking Desired Tuples without Writing SQL Queries	2020	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,942	AIDE: An Automatic User Navigation System for Interactive Data Exploration	2015	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
711	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.00017751589
1,023	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00014611863
1,152	Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data	2012	VLDB	0.00013645792
1,830	Relaxing Join and Selection Queries	2006	VLDB	0.000103862
1,909	SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality	2011	CIDR	0.00010121304
2,017	The Researcher’s Guide to the Data Deluge: Querying a Scientific Database in Just a Few Seconds	2011	VLDB	9.7810458e-05
2,750	Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example	2013	PODS	8.176296e-05
4,201	Meet Charles, big data query advisor	2013	CIDR	6.3639451e-05
6,945	AstroShelf: Understanding the Universe Through Scalable Navigation of a Galaxy of Annotations	2012	SIGMOD	4.8911613e-05

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