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Data Profiling – A Tutorial
Summary: Tutorial on data profiling: metadata discovery, profiling tasks, and a survey of relational profiling systems. Addresses hard problems: dependency discovery, dynamic/streaming data, and visualization/interpretation; outlines future research directions.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 5331
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2017
- Pagerank
- 7.0623537e-05
- Overall Rank
- 3,473 | 75.87%
- DOI
-
10.1145/3035918.3054772
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citing Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 6,759 |
Fast Incremental Discovery of Pointwise Order Dependencies |
2020 |
VLDB |
4.933198e-05 |
| 8,470 |
Rapidash: Efficient Detection of Constraint Violations |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.4993203e-05 |
| 8,472 |
DataProf: Semantic Profiling for Iterative Data Cleansing and Business Rule Acquisition |
2018 |
SIGMOD |
4.4985733e-05 |
| 8,739 |
CtxPipe: Context-aware Data Preparation Pipeline Construction for Machine Learning |
2024 |
SIGMOD |
4.4520434e-05 |
| 8,836 |
Fast Approximate Denial Constraint Discovery |
2023 |
VLDB |
4.4350633e-05 |
| 9,151 |
The Power of Constraints in Natural Language to SQL Translation |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.380727e-05 |
| 9,355 |
GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example |
2023 |
SIGMOD |
4.3484264e-05 |
| 9,748 |
Efficient Differential Dependency Discovery |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.2856385e-05 |
| 10,549 |
Discovering Approximate Inclusion Dependencies |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,595 |
Efficient Discovery of Relaxed Functional Dependencies |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,636 |
CatDB: Data-catalog-guided, LLM-based Generation of Data-centric ML Pipelines |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,465 |
INCA: Inconsistency-Aware Data Profiling and Querying |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 19 of 19 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank |
Cited Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 112 |
Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System |
2001 |
VLDB |
0.00047010908 |
| 139 |
The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL |
2012 |
VLDB |
0.00042320525 |
| 224 |
CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies |
2004 |
SIGMOD |
0.00032743209 |
| 481 |
Mining Database Structure; Or, How to Build a Data Quality Browser |
2002 |
SIGMOD |
0.000221538 |
| 556 |
Discovering Denial Constraints |
2013 |
VLDB |
0.00020214701 |
| 609 |
Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
0.00019223217 |
| 890 |
A Hybrid Approach to Functional Dependency Discovery |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
0.00015542177 |
| 1,274 |
The Data Civilizer System |
2017 |
CIDR |
0.00012869297 |
| 1,405 |
Extending Dependencies with Conditions |
2007 |
VLDB |
0.00012174499 |
| 1,627 |
Data Profiling with Metanome |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.0001108421 |
| 1,912 |
Information-Theoretic Tools for Mining Database Structure from Large Data Sets |
2004 |
SIGMOD |
0.00010116822 |
| 2,163 |
Sequential Dependencies |
2009 |
VLDB |
9.3956956e-05 |
| 4,680 |
Scalable Discovery of Unique Column Combinations |
2014 |
VLDB |
5.9964535e-05 |
| 4,740 |
Effective and Complete Discovery of Order Dependencies via Set-based Axiomatization |
2017 |
VLDB |
5.9515736e-05 |
| 4,786 |
Divide & Conquer-based Inclusion Dependency Discovery |
2015 |
VLDB |
5.9185547e-05 |
| 4,911 |
Temporal Rules Discovery for Web Data Cleaning |
2016 |
VLDB |
5.8349225e-05 |
| 4,932 |
Data Auditor: Exploring Data Quality and Semantics using Pattern Tableaux |
2010 |
VLDB |
5.8163536e-05 |
| 5,583 |
Challenges and Opportunities with Big Data |
2012 |
VLDB |
5.4207742e-05 |
| 6,431 |
Fundamentals of Order Dependencies |
2012 |
VLDB |
5.058289e-05 |
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