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: 5705
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.4446041e-05
Overall Rank: 8,358 | 42.66%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3314031

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Authors

1. Davide Mottin (Aarhus University)
2. Matteo Lissandrini (Aalborg University)
3. Yannis Velegrakis (Utrecht University)
4. Themis Palpanas (Paris Descartes University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mottin_sigmod19,
        title = {{Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples}},
        author = {Mottin, Davide and Lissandrini, Matteo and Velegrakis, Yannis and Palpanas, Themis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3314031},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3314031},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,395	Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview	2020	SIGMOD	6.7271323e-05
8,920	Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges	2023	VLDB	5.3483178e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
367	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00019979463
517	Query by Output	2009	SIGMOD	0.00017169735
1,160	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.00011883163
1,192	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011740132
1,262	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011427456
1,313	Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011186284
1,465	Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples	2018	VLDB	0.00010689571
1,862	MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples	1998	VLDB	9.5951515e-05
2,387	S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery	2015	SIGMOD	8.6482009e-05
2,677	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	8.2682753e-05
3,341	Designing and Refining Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2011	SIGMOD	7.5028917e-05
3,422	SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example	2016	VLDB	7.426997e-05
4,140	Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples	2017	SIGMOD	6.8765495e-05
4,644	Reverse Engineering SPJ-Queries from Examples	2017	PODS	6.5901073e-05
6,125	The Minimum Wiener Connector Problem	2015	SIGMOD	5.9675732e-05
6,200	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.9457282e-05
7,837	Searching with XQ: the eXemplar Query Search Engine	2014	SIGMOD	5.5344136e-05
8,484	Synthesizing Extraction Rules from User Examples with SEER	2017	SIGMOD	5.4155551e-05
8,485	Diversity based Relevance Feedback for Time Series Search	2014	VLDB	5.4155551e-05
9,727	Ziggy: Characterizing Query Results for Data Explorers	2016	VLDB	5.2297511e-05

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