Towards Democratizing Relational Data Visualization

Summary: Three pillars for relational data viz: interaction-first languages, efficient pipelines, and underspecified-input recommendations. Suggests DB-centered visualization challenges: interaction, processing efficiency, and recommendations for relational viz. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h9f3a500b2f09e15f
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.6382396e-05
Overall Rank: 6,895 | 53.79%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3314029

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Nan Tang (Hamad Bin Khalifa University; Qatar Computing Research Institute)
2. Eugene Wu (Columbia University)
3. Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{tang_sigmod19,
        title = {{Towards Democratizing Relational Data Visualization}},
        author = {Tang, Nan and Wu, Eugene and Li, Guoliang},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3314029},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3314029},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,345	Synthesizing Natural Language to Visualization (NL2VIS) Benchmarks from NL2SQL Benchmarks	2021	SIGMOD	6.6388774e-05
5,546	Database Benchmarking for Supporting Real-Time Interactive Querying of Large Data	2020	SIGMOD	6.071729e-05
10,225	COMPARE: Accelerating Groupwise Comparison in Relational Databases for Data Analytics	2021	VLDB	5.0460607e-05
11,831	A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries	2023	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 26 of 26 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
21	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00056737487
191	Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries	2013	VLDB	0.0002578784
228	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023872855
395	SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics	2015	VLDB	0.00019125046
924	Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System	2017	VLDB	0.00013033863
1,114	Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration	2010	SIGMOD	0.00011939972
1,504	M4: A Visualization-Oriented Time Series Data Aggregation	2014	VLDB	0.00010425951
1,617	Dynamic Prefetching of Data Tiles for Interactive Visualization	2016	SIGMOD	0.00010046563
1,668	Rapid Sampling for Visualizations with Ordering Guarantees	2015	VLDB	9.9190265e-05
1,722	SMOKE: Fine-grained Lineage at Interactive Speed	2018	VLDB	9.781628e-05
2,014	Sample + Seek: Approximating Aggregates with Distribution Precision Guarantee	2016	SIGMOD	9.1775869e-05
2,108	Vizdom: Interactive Analytics through Pen and Touch	2015	VLDB	9.0229444e-05
2,191	Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System	2014	VLDB	8.8844453e-05
2,524	VizQL: A Language for Query, Analysis and Visualization	2006	SIGMOD	8.3312108e-05
3,162	Efficient Spatial Sampling of Large Geographical Tables	2012	SIGMOD	7.5630152e-05
3,213	Interactive Data Exploration Using Semantic Windows	2014	SIGMOD	7.5144638e-05
3,348	I've Seen "Enough": Incrementally Improving Visualizations to Support Rapid Decision Making	2017	VLDB	7.3783668e-05
5,003	SeeDB: Automatically Generating Query Visualizations	2014	VLDB	6.306747e-05
5,203	The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems	2014	VLDB	6.2172569e-05
5,773	DeepEye: Creating Good Data Visualizations by Keyword Search	2018	SIGMOD	5.981599e-05
5,823	SCOUT: Prefetching for Latent Structure Following Queries	2012	VLDB	5.965389e-05
6,195	Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines	2018	SIGMOD	5.8374071e-05
6,530	Fast-Forwarding to Desired Visualizations with zenvisage	2017	CIDR	5.7368132e-05
6,663	Combining Design and Performance in a Data Visualization Management System	2017	CIDR	5.7001805e-05
9,974	Faster Visual Analytics through Pixel-Perfect Aggregation	2014	VLDB	5.0886761e-05
12,263	Demonstration of Smoke: A Deep Breath of Data-Intensive Lineage Applications	2018	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

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