DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems

Summary: DataPrism performs causal interventions to expose data profiles driving system failures. Root causes identified precisely with orders of magnitude fewer interventions than prior work, validated on seven real and synthetic data-driven systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6378
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.7119157e-05
Overall Rank: 7,068 | 51.51%
DOI: 10.1145/3514221.3517864

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Authors

1. Sainyam Galhotra (University of Chicago)
2. Anna Fariha (Microsoft)
3. Raoni Lourenço (New York University)
4. Juliana Freire (New York University)
5. Alexandra Meliou (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
6. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{galhotra_sigmod22,
        title = {{DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems}},
        author = {Galhotra, Sainyam and Fariha, Anna and Lourenço, Raoni and Freire, Juliana and Meliou, Alexandra and Srivastava, Divesh},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3514221.3517864},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3517864},
        year = {2022}
}

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8,914	CtxPipe: Context-aware Data Preparation Pipeline Construction for Machine Learning	2024	SIGMOD	5.3483178e-05
10,080	Fainder: A Fast and Accurate Index for Distribution-Aware Dataset Search	2024	VLDB	5.158939e-05
10,709	CausalExplain: Causal Explanations of Black-box Models with Training Data Subsets	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,170	Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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112	HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference	2017	VLDB	0.00032801121
159	CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies	2004	SIGMOD	0.00028129426
376	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00019677674
729	Functional Dependency Discovery: An Experimental Evaluation of Seven Algorithms	2015	VLDB	0.00014539421
858	Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes	2015	VLDB	0.0001356511
863	Interventional Fairness : Causal Database Repair for Algorithmic Fairness	2019	SIGMOD	0.00013531835
1,792	MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data	2017	SIGMOD	9.7436856e-05
2,185	Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets	2016	SIGMOD	9.0026006e-05
2,351	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.7099618e-05
2,374	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	8.6755064e-05
2,584	Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0	2020	SIGMOD	8.3783546e-05
2,759	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	8.1577506e-05
3,004	SCODED: Statistical Constraint Oriented Data Error Detection	2020	SIGMOD	7.8608629e-05
3,670	Learning to Validate the Predictions of Black Box Classifiers on Unseen Data	2020	SIGMOD	7.2118928e-05
4,373	Data Debugging and Exploration with Vizier	2019	SIGMOD	6.738145e-05
4,386	Divide & Conquer-based Inclusion Dependency Discovery	2015	VLDB	6.7309577e-05
4,488	Horizon: Scalable Dependency-driven Data Cleaning	2021	VLDB	6.668457e-05
5,404	Dagger: A Data (not code) Debugger	2020	CIDR	6.2294192e-05
7,397	Conformance Constraint Discovery: Measuring Trust in Data-Driven Systems	2021	SIGMOD	5.6256632e-05
8,185	BugDoc: Algorithms to Debug Computational Processes	2020	SIGMOD	5.4707797e-05
9,045	Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging	2020	SIGMOD	5.3252192e-05
9,495	Debugging Large-Scale Data Science Pipelines using Dagger	2020	VLDB	5.2616335e-05

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