SeeDB: Automatically Generating Query Visualizations
Summary: SeeDB automatically generates and ranks visualizations for a given query by exploring the visualization space and picking the most interesting ones. It demonstrates automatic visualization discovery across real data, reducing analyst effort. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Manasi Vartak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Aditya Parameswaran (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 4. Neoklis Polyzotis (Google; University of California Santa Cruz)
BibTeX Citation
@article{vartak_vldb14,
title = {{SeeDB: Automatically Generating Query Visualizations}},
author = {Vartak, Manasi and Madden, Samuel and Parameswaran, Aditya and Polyzotis, Neoklis},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '14},
volume = {7},
number = {13},
pages = {1581--1584},
doi = {10.14778/2733004.2733008},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733008},
year = {2014}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 395 | SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00019156481 |
| 1,408 | Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System | 2018 | VLDB | 0.00010738859 |
| 3,436 | Collaborative Data Analytics with DataHub | 2015 | VLDB | 7.297345e-05 |
| 6,053 | A Demonstration of Interactive Analysis of Performance Measurements with Viska | 2017 | SIGMOD | 5.9001344e-05 |
| 6,519 | Fast-Forwarding to Desired Visualizations with zenvisage | 2017 | CIDR | 5.755832e-05 |
| 6,878 | Towards Democratizing Relational Data Visualization | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.6563449e-05 |
| 7,106 | Data Vocalization with CiceroDB | 2019 | CIDR | 5.5991152e-05 |
| 9,148 | MetaInsight: Automatic Discovery of Structured Knowledge for Exploratory Data Analysis | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.2190604e-05 |
| 11,896 | BABOONS: Black-Box Optimization of Data Summaries in Natural Language | 2022 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701 | Explaining differences in multidimensional aggregates | 1999 | VLDB | 0.0001467489 |
| 925 | Intelligent Rollups in Multidimensional OLAP Data | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00013045856 |
| 984 | User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data | 2000 | VLDB | 0.00012680398 |
| 1,112 | Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00011975206 |
| 2,650 | DEVise: Integrated Querying and Visual Exploration of Large Datasets | 1997 | SIGMOD | 8.1706208e-05 |
| 5,459 | SeeDB: Visualizing Database Queries Efficiently | 2014 | VLDB | 6.1211089e-05 |
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