Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples

Summary: Unified example-based exploratory analysis framework infers full results from a seed set of examples. Tailored algorithms for relational, textual, and graph data accompany a tutorial-style survey of exploratory search methods across large, complex datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5644
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 4.538469e-05
Overall Rank: 8,338 | 42.06%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3314031

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,540	Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview	2020	SIGMOD	6.0978937e-05
8,746	Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges	2023	VLDB	4.4520434e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
420	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00023700634
491	Query by Output	2009	SIGMOD	0.00021960753
1,456	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011891284
1,469	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.00011831156
1,502	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011614522
1,575	Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011288804
1,613	MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples	1998	VLDB	0.00011141103
1,821	Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples	2018	VLDB	0.00010406856
2,577	S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery	2015	SIGMOD	8.5066436e-05
2,738	The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems [Vision Paper]	2014	VLDB	8.2039241e-05
3,076	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	7.6063803e-05
3,684	SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example	2016	VLDB	6.8399983e-05
3,872	Designing and Refining Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2011	SIGMOD	6.6737583e-05
4,636	Reverse Engineering SPJ-Queries from Examples	2017	PODS	6.0270157e-05
5,209	Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples	2017	SIGMOD	5.6245587e-05
6,235	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1386078e-05
7,156	The Minimum Wiener Connector Problem	2015	SIGMOD	4.8098527e-05
7,290	Searching with XQ: the eXemplar Query Search Engine	2014	SIGMOD	4.768315e-05
8,613	Synthesizing Extraction Rules from User Examples with SEER	2017	SIGMOD	4.4806551e-05
8,614	Diversity based Relevance Feedback for Time Series Search	2014	VLDB	4.4806551e-05
9,630	Ziggy: Characterizing Query Results for Data Explorers	2016	VLDB	4.3097575e-05

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