Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview

Summary: Survey of automating Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) via ML, from action recommendations to deep RL/seq2seq for end-to-end EDA. Discusses data-management challenges, modeling user interest, and open questions to reduce manual exploratory effort. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5823
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 6.1033443e-05
Overall Rank: 4,540 | 68.42%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3383126

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Authors

1. Tova Milo
2. Amit Somech

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4,332	Missing Value Imputation on Multidimensional Time Series	2021	VLDB	6.2805243e-05
5,313	XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality	2023	SIGMOD	5.573009e-05
8,289	Knowledge Graph Exploration Systems: are we lost?	2022	CIDR	4.5435639e-05
8,996	MetaInsight: Automatic Discovery of Structured Knowledge for Exploratory Data Analysis	2021	SIGMOD	4.4124959e-05
10,784	Towards Automated Cross-domain Exploratory Data Analysis through Large Language Models	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,463	PyExplore: Query Recommendations for Data Exploration without Query Logs	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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460	SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics	2015	VLDB	0.00022516069
991	Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System	2017	VLDB	0.00014807273
1,000	Intelligent Rollups in Multidimensional OLAP Data	2001	VLDB	0.00014709252
1,009	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014653644
1,137	User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data	2000	VLDB	0.00013730532
1,187	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00013443639
1,350	Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System	2018	VLDB	0.00012431059
1,552	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011408814
1,993	Automatically Generating Data Exploration Sessions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2020	SIGMOD	9.8453334e-05
2,104	Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets	2016	SIGMOD	9.536298e-05
2,734	Controlling False Discoveries During Interactive Data Exploration	2017	SIGMOD	8.2078306e-05
3,617	Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation	2017	CIDR	6.9091789e-05
4,758	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	5.9422515e-05
5,785	REACT: Context-Sensitive Recommendations for Data Analysis	2016	SIGMOD	5.3284468e-05
6,237	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1435341e-05
8,344	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.5428111e-05
9,830	Towards Autonomous, Hands-Free Data Exploration	2020	CIDR	4.2751057e-05

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