Bias in OLAP Queries: Detection, Explanation, and Removal (Or Think Twice About Your AVG-Query)

Summary: HypDB detects bias in OLAP queries via independence tests, explains the causes, and rewrites biased queries into unbiased forms. Real-data evaluations show accurate bias detection, actionable explanations, and automatic discovery of insights, including a landmark 1973 discrimination case. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5560
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 8.0810163e-05
Overall Rank: 2,810 | 80.46%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3196914

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3,299	SCODED: Statistical Constraint Oriented Data Error Detection	2020	SIGMOD	7.2546659e-05
4,769	Automated Feature Engineering for Algorithmic Fairness	2021	VLDB	5.934329e-05
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7,172	Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views	2024	SIGMOD	4.8114797e-05
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10,213	Stress-Testing Causal Claims via Cardinality Repairs	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
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10,581	Causal DAG Summarization	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
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11,419	On Detecting Cherry-picked Generalizations	2022	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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1,646	Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis	2013	CIDR	0.00011036992
2,132	Towards Sustainable Insights or why polygamy is bad for you	2017	CIDR	9.4770432e-05

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