DataXFormer: An Interactive Data Transformation Tool

Summary: DataXFormer enables interactive semantic data transformations via reference data lookups (e.g., zip→city) beyond pure syntactic rules. The demo shows user interaction and evaluates transformation-discovery approaches over ~112M web tables and online sources, highlighting effectiveness and efficiency in data management tasks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4981
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.9927993e-05
Overall Rank: 4,695 | 67.34%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2723566

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,469	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.00011836053
3,797	Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality	2017	VLDB	6.7597149e-05
6,416	Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types using Open-source Code	2018	SIGMOD	5.072267e-05
7,384	The VADA Architecture for Cost-Effective Data Wrangling	2017	SIGMOD	4.7445719e-05

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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
54	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00066047203
420	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00023719065
489	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00022030728
1,537	Google's Deep-Web Crawl	2008	VLDB	0.00011465704
1,972	BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	9.8916725e-05
5,937	DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations	2015	CIDR	5.2650964e-05

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