XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality

Summary: XInsight enables eXplainable Data Analysis (XDA) via causality in EDA. A three-module pipeline: causal graph extraction, XDA-semantics translation, and explanation attribution, addresses integration challenges; experiments and user study validate its promise. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6659
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.573009e-05
Overall Rank: 5,313 | 63.04%
DOI: 10.1145/3589301

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7,172	Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views	2024	SIGMOD	4.8114797e-05
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9,871	From Logs to Causal Inference: Diagnosing Large Systems	2025	VLDB	4.2667743e-05
10,101	Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,147	Causal Explanations for Disparate Trends: Where and Why?	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,213	Stress-Testing Causal Claims via Cardinality Repairs	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
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10,740	Finding Convincing Views to Endorse a Claim	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,784	Towards Automated Cross-domain Exploratory Data Analysis through Large Language Models	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,875	SDEcho: Efficient Explanation of Aggregated Sequence Difference	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
214	Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries	2013	VLDB	0.0003363692
942	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015155714
1,022	DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases	2016	SIGMOD	0.00014614917
1,119	The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers	2011	VLDB	0.0001386199
1,449	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	0.0001193267
2,126	MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data	2017	SIGMOD	9.4887794e-05
2,154	DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation	2019	VLDB	9.4208667e-05
2,402	Causality and Explanations in Databases	2014	VLDB	8.8928361e-05
2,602	Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality	2011	SIGMOD	8.4667197e-05
2,753	Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0	2020	SIGMOD	8.1724339e-05
2,923	Explaining Black-Box Algorithms Using Probabilistic Contrastive Counterfactuals	2021	SIGMOD	7.8953538e-05
4,127	A Statistical Perspective on Discovering Functional Dependencies in Noisy Data	2020	SIGMOD	6.4310458e-05
4,540	Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview	2020	SIGMOD	6.1033443e-05
4,872	Explainable AI: Foundations, Applications, Opportunities for Data Management Research	2022	SIGMOD	5.8609352e-05
5,191	Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances	2019	SIGMOD	5.6378768e-05
5,217	QuickInsights: Quick and Automatic Discovery of Insights from Multi-Dimensional Data	2019	SIGMOD	5.6227959e-05
5,691	Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	5.3684557e-05
6,779	Explaining Inference Queries with Bayesian Optimization	2021	VLDB	4.9280116e-05
8,420	ZaliQL: Causal Inference from Observational Data at Scale	2017	VLDB	4.5173249e-05
8,853	Complaint-Driven Training Data Debugging at Interactive Speeds	2022	SIGMOD	4.4350727e-05
8,996	MetaInsight: Automatic Discovery of Structured Knowledge for Exploratory Data Analysis	2021	SIGMOD	4.4124959e-05
9,024	Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging	2020	SIGMOD	4.4075011e-05
9,533	TSExplain: Surfacing Evolving Explanations for Time Series	2021	SIGMOD	4.3269636e-05

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