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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
6.345789e-05
Overall Rank
4,940 | 66.79%
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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10,196 Ariadne: Online Provenance for Big Graph Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 5.0623376e-05
11,407 mlidea: Interactively Improving ML Data Preparation Code via “Shadow Pipelines” 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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Showing 19 of 19 cited papers.

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17 Provenance Semirings 2007 PODS 0.00059752575
126 Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage 2005 CIDR 0.00030439683
442 Differential dataflow 2013 CIDR 0.00018210463
466 Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System 2015 SIGMOD 0.00017773029
591 Lineage Tracing for General Data Warehouse Transformations 2001 VLDB 0.00015888097
1,000 Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization 2006 SIGMOD 0.00012607089
1,388 Provenance for Generalized Map and Reduce Workflows 2011 CIDR 0.00010821908
1,548 Distributed SociaLite: A Datalog-Based Language for Large-Scale Graph Analysis 2013 VLDB 0.00010290306
1,564 Titian: Data Provenance Support in Spark 2016 VLDB 0.00010222394
1,588 DBNotes: A Post-It System for Relational Databases based on Provenance 2005 SIGMOD 0.00010140362
1,765 Putting Lipstick on Pig: Enabling Database-style Workflow Provenance 2012 VLDB 9.6955585e-05
1,827 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.5545888e-05
2,002 Orchestra: Facilitating Collaborative Data Sharing 2007 SIGMOD 9.208994e-05
3,368 Efficient Querying and Maintenance of Network Provenance at Internet-Scale 2010 SIGMOD 7.3701213e-05
4,154 Asynchronous and Fault-Tolerant Recursive Datalog Evaluation in Shared-Nothing Engines 2015 VLDB 6.776227e-05
4,160 SPIDER: a Schema mapPIng DEbuggeR 2006 VLDB 6.7716256e-05
4,771 Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows 2011 VLDB 6.4230759e-05
6,708 Selective Provenance for Datalog Programs Using Top-K Queries 2015 VLDB 5.7027474e-05
8,273 Distributed Time-aware Provenance 2013 VLDB 5.3642993e-05
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