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Explaining Outputs in Modern Data Analytics

Summary: Framework for interactive explanations of outputs from modern data-parallel analytics, including iterations. Uses first-occurrence pruning to shrink explanations and a sufficiency-based method to reproduce the target output, implemented as differential dataflow operators for fast, incremental updates. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h99497399fc6217f5
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
6.3443901e-05
Overall Rank
4,937 | 66.82%
DOI
10.14778/2994509.2994510
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BibTeX Citation

@article{chothia_vldb16,
        title = {{Explaining Outputs in Modern Data Analytics}},
        author = {Chothia, Zaheer and Liagouris, John and McSherry, Frank and Roscoe, Timothy},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1137--1148},
        doi = {10.14778/2994509.2994510},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2994509.2994510},
        year = {2016}
}

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Showing 19 of 19 cited papers.

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17 Provenance Semirings 2007 PODS 0.00059813669
126 Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage 2005 CIDR 0.00030430114
442 Differential dataflow 2013 CIDR 0.00018201988
466 Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System 2015 SIGMOD 0.00017765702
590 Lineage Tracing for General Data Warehouse Transformations 2001 VLDB 0.00015884721
1,000 Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization 2006 SIGMOD 0.00012601156
1,389 Provenance for Generalized Map and Reduce Workflows 2011 CIDR 0.00010818511
1,550 Distributed SociaLite: A Datalog-Based Language for Large-Scale Graph Analysis 2013 VLDB 0.00010285521
1,564 Titian: Data Provenance Support in Spark 2016 VLDB 0.00010219222
1,587 DBNotes: A Post-It System for Relational Databases based on Provenance 2005 SIGMOD 0.0001013806
1,767 Putting Lipstick on Pig: Enabling Database-style Workflow Provenance 2012 VLDB 9.6910812e-05
1,827 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.5518797e-05
2,006 Orchestra: Facilitating Collaborative Data Sharing 2007 SIGMOD 9.2046844e-05
3,364 Efficient Querying and Maintenance of Network Provenance at Internet-Scale 2010 SIGMOD 7.3715499e-05
4,153 Asynchronous and Fault-Tolerant Recursive Datalog Evaluation in Shared-Nothing Engines 2015 VLDB 6.7730626e-05
4,160 SPIDER: a Schema mapPIng DEbuggeR 2006 VLDB 6.7685796e-05
4,774 Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows 2011 VLDB 6.4201418e-05
6,712 Selective Provenance for Datalog Programs Using Top-K Queries 2015 VLDB 5.70009e-05
8,277 Distributed Time-aware Provenance 2013 VLDB 5.3618022e-05
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