Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation

Summary: Predictive Interaction: a framework for interactive data-transformation systems where algorithms infer likely transformation specifications and proactively propose actions. Shifts specification burden to models while preserving human-in-the-loop guidance and expressive power. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: ha36bd9dadceb4276
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 9.4606235e-05
Overall Rank: 1,872 | 87.42%
DOI: -
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Jeffrey Heer (Trifacta; University of Washington)
2. Joseph M. Hellerstein (Trifacta; University of California Berkeley)
3. Sean Kandel (Trifacta)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{heer_cidr15,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '15},
        title = {{Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Heer, Jeffrey and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Kandel, Sean},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,095	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.00012048043
1,370	Towards Scalable Dataframe Systems	2020	VLDB	0.00010895207
1,669	SystemDS: A Declarative Machine Learning System for the End-to-End Data Science Lifecycle	2020	CIDR	9.9324573e-05
2,642	Auto-Suggest: Learning-to-Recommend Data Preparation Steps Using Data Science Notebooks	2020	SIGMOD	8.1751637e-05
2,744	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations	2018	VLDB	8.064168e-05
4,235	Auto-Pipeline: Synthesizing Complex Data Pipelines By-Target Using Reinforcement Learning and Search	2021	VLDB	6.710043e-05
4,426	Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns	2020	VLDB	6.601896e-05
5,199	QuERy: A Framework for Integrating Entity Resolution with Query Processing	2016	VLDB	6.2309669e-05
6,652	Combining Design and Performance in a Data Visualization Management System	2017	CIDR	5.7190063e-05
7,150	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): Extensible Data Transformation in Excel	2018	SIGMOD	5.5963926e-05
9,626	Interactive and Deterministic Data Cleaning: A Tossed Stone Raises a Thousand Ripples	2016	SIGMOD	5.1477881e-05
9,953	Meta-Mappings for Schema Mapping Reuse	2019	VLDB	5.1014321e-05
10,116	Data Augmentation for ML-driven Data Preparation and Integration	2021	VLDB	5.0765311e-05
10,430	BAT: Target-Instance-Free Data Preparation Synthesis via LLM-Driven Tree Search	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,165	GraphWrangler: An Interactive Graph View on Relational Data	2019	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
95	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00034367518
514	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00016999652
763	AJAX: An Extensible Data Cleaning Tool	2000	SIGMOD	0.00014133678
1,578	SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems	1996	VLDB	0.00010182593
1,995	Clio: A Semi-Automatic Tool For Schema Mapping	2001	SIGMOD	9.2179352e-05
2,650	DEVise: Integrated Querying and Visual Exploration of Large Datasets	1997	SIGMOD	8.1706208e-05
2,685	Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example	2013	PODS	8.1334309e-05
3,005	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.7609244e-05
6,651	Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources	2006	SIGMOD	5.7197329e-05

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