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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
5885
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
6.7271323e-05
Overall Rank
4,395 | 69.85%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3383126

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{milo_sigmod20,
        title = {{Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview}},
        author = {Milo, Tova and Somech, Amit},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3383126},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3383126},
        year = {2020}
}

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410 SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics 2015 VLDB 0.0001890421
779 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014092047
846 SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL 2011 VLDB 0.00013658824
915 Intelligent Rollups in Multidimensional OLAP Data 2001 VLDB 0.00013243386
965 User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data 2000 VLDB 0.00012933878
986 Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System 2017 VLDB 0.0001281777
1,198 Overview of Data Exploration Techniques 2015 SIGMOD 0.00011706307
1,392 Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System 2018 VLDB 0.00010936065
2,058 Automatically Generating Data Exploration Sessions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2020 SIGMOD 9.2480248e-05
2,185 Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets 2016 SIGMOD 9.0026006e-05
3,258 Controlling False Discoveries During Interactive Data Exploration 2017 SIGMOD 7.5897862e-05
3,381 Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation 2017 CIDR 7.4571963e-05
4,420 Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration 2019 VLDB 6.7132724e-05
6,200 New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics 2017 VLDB 5.9457282e-05
6,799 REACT: Context-Sensitive Recommendations for Data Analysis 2016 SIGMOD 5.7701345e-05
8,358 Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples 2019 SIGMOD 5.4446041e-05
9,977 Towards Autonomous, Hands-Free Data Exploration 2020 CIDR 5.1845938e-05
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