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Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System

Summary: zenvisage introduces ZQL, a declarative language and visual-exploration algebra for composing, filtering, comparing, and ranking collections of visualizations. Its graph-based optimizer and interactive shortcuts make pattern-driven exploration scalable and less trial-and-error. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h63db030331e86856
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.0001305096
Overall Rank
924 | 93.80%
DOI
10.14778/3025111.3025124
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BibTeX Citation

@article{siddiqui_vldb17,
        title = {{Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System}},
        author = {Siddiqui, Tarique and Kim, Albert and Lee, John and Karahalios, Karrie and Parameswaran, Aditya},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {4},
        pages = {457--468},
        doi = {10.14778/3025111.3025124},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3025111.3025124},
        year = {2017}
}

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