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Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System
Summary: Northstar: an Interactive Data Science platform that rethinks the analytics stack to democratize data science with intuitive visual interfaces and automated chores. It provides built-in safeguards against false discoveries so domain experts can focus on modeling.
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Paper ID
h859bd7e1ef650f96
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
0.00010743451
Overall Rank
1,409 | 90.53%
DOI
10.14778/3229863.3240493
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
1.
Tim Kraska
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{kraska_vldb18,
title = {{Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System}},
author = {Kraska, Tim},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '18},
volume = {11},
number = {12},
pages = {2150--2164},
doi = {10.14778/3229863.3240493},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3229863.3240493},
year = {2018}
}
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