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: 5824
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 6.0978937e-05
Overall Rank: 4,540 | 68.45%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3383126

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Authors

1. Tova Milo
2. Amit Somech

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4,331	Missing Value Imputation on Multidimensional Time Series	2021	VLDB	6.2744869e-05
5,321	XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality	2023	SIGMOD	5.5676564e-05
8,282	Knowledge Graph Exploration Systems: are we lost?	2022	CIDR	4.5392079e-05
8,959	MetaInsight: Automatic Discovery of Structured Knowledge for Exploratory Data Analysis	2021	SIGMOD	4.4175998e-05
10,790	Towards Automated Cross-domain Exploratory Data Analysis through Large Language Models	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,466	PyExplore: Query Recommendations for Data Exploration without Query Logs	2021	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

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461	SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics	2015	VLDB	0.00022615628
992	Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System	2017	VLDB	0.00014795333
1,001	Intelligent Rollups in Multidimensional OLAP Data	2001	VLDB	0.00014709145
1,010	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014644808
1,137	User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data	2000	VLDB	0.0001373991
1,185	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00013432692
1,354	Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System	2018	VLDB	0.00012424105
1,507	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011594294
1,992	Automatically Generating Data Exploration Sessions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2020	SIGMOD	9.8415851e-05
2,111	Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets	2016	SIGMOD	9.5276068e-05
2,739	Controlling False Discoveries During Interactive Data Exploration	2017	SIGMOD	8.2002767e-05
3,632	Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation	2017	CIDR	6.8961387e-05
4,755	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	5.9375171e-05
5,796	REACT: Context-Sensitive Recommendations for Data Analysis	2016	SIGMOD	5.3233294e-05
6,235	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1386078e-05
8,338	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.538469e-05
9,829	Towards Autonomous, Hands-Free Data Exploration	2020	CIDR	4.2710095e-05

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