PyExplore: Query Recommendations for Data Exploration without Query Logs

Summary: PyExplore provides query recommendations for data exploration on unseen datasets without relying on historical query logs. It accepts an initial query and parameters, and outputs diverse, data-correlated recommendations to guide exploration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hb28dc6a56b8e8d64
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 11,968 | 19.54%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3452762

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Authors

1. Apostolos Glenis (Athena Research Center)
2. Georgia Koutrika (Athena Research Center)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{glenis_sigmod21,
        title = {{PyExplore: Query Recommendations for Data Exploration without Query Logs}},
        author = {Glenis, Apostolos and Koutrika, Georgia},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3452762},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452762},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,022	DatAgent: The Imminent Age of Intelligent Data Assistants	2021	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
300	OPTICS: Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering Structure	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021810545
861	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013402933
4,273	Automatic Example Queries for Ad Hoc Databases	2011	SIGMOD	6.6919508e-05
4,497	Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview	2020	SIGMOD	6.5763072e-05

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