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Foofah: Transforming Data By Example

Summary: Data wrangling is automated by example. Foofah synthesizes transformation programs from a small input-output example by efficiently searching the space of operations, outperforming Wrangler with about 60% less user effort. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5411
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00012921038
Overall Rank
1,266 | 91.21%
DOI
10.1145/3035918.3064034

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488 Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System 2013 CIDR 0.00022029993
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