MetaInsight: Automatic Discovery of Structured Knowledge for Exploratory Data Analysis

Summary: MetaInsight provides a structured knowledge representation for automated EDA by organizing data patterns into HDPs and separating commonnesses from exceptions. A fast scoring, mining, and ranking pipeline discovers high-quality MetaInsights, validated on real data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h4324b08d5c168e1e
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.2215322e-05
Overall Rank: 9,139 | 38.56%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3457267

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Pingchuan Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
2. Rui Ding (Microsoft)
3. Shi Han (Microsoft)
4. Dongmei Zhang (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ma_sigmod21,
        title = {{MetaInsight: Automatic Discovery of Structured Knowledge for Exploratory Data Analysis}},
        author = {Ma, Pingchuan and Ding, Rui and Han, Shi and Zhang, Dongmei},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457267},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457267},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,982	XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality	2023	SIGMOD	6.328859e-05
9,192	Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data	2024	VLDB	5.2110714e-05
11,379	Towards Automated Cross-domain Exploratory Data Analysis through Large Language Models	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
323	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.0002100085
403	Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs	1999	SIGMOD	0.0001910396
924	Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System	2017	VLDB	0.00013057136
984	User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data	2000	VLDB	0.00012686375
2,208	Multi-Dimensional Regression Analysis of Time-Series Data Streams	2002	VLDB	8.8382452e-05
2,402	i3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of OLAP data cubes	2000	SIGMOD	8.5189151e-05
2,544	Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration	2003	VLDB	8.3179863e-05
3,188	Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data	2017	SIGMOD	7.5535445e-05
3,557	Promotion Analysis in Multi-Dimensional Space	2009	VLDB	7.2079402e-05
4,497	Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview	2020	SIGMOD	6.5763072e-05
4,725	QuickInsights: Quick and Automatic Discovery of Insights from Multi-Dimensional Data	2019	SIGMOD	6.4504342e-05
4,977	SeeDB: Automatically Generating Query Visualizations	2014	VLDB	6.3305496e-05
6,902	Smart Drill-Down: A New Data Exploration Operator	2015	VLDB	5.6513202e-05

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