Dagger: A Data (not code) Debugger

Summary: Dagger: an end-to-end data (not code) debugger exposing data-centric primitives to perform interactive what‑if analyses and targeted fixes on script-based analytics pipelines. Unique for abstracting transformations and lineage-aware interventions to speed diagnosis/repair; prototype deployed in Data Civilizer 2.0 for clinical pipelines. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he01bc6200e273307
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 6.2087063e-05
Overall Rank: 5,252 | 64.69%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. El Kindi Rezig (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Lei Cao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
3. Giovanni Simonini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4. Maxime Schoemans (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
5. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
6. Mourad Ouzzani (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
7. Nan Tang (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
8. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rezig_cidr20,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '20},
        title = {{Dagger: A Data (not code) Debugger}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Rezig, El Kindi and Cao, Lei and Simonini, Giovanni and Schoemans, Maxime and Madden, Samuel and Ouzzani, Mourad and Tang, Nan and Stonebraker, Michael},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,347	Horizon: Scalable Dependency-driven Data Cleaning	2021	VLDB	6.6469984e-05
6,323	Lightweight Inspection of Data Preprocessing in Native Machine Learning Pipelines	2021	CIDR	5.8138422e-05
7,183	DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems	2022	SIGMOD	5.5917354e-05
7,218	DICE: Data Discovery by Example	2021	VLDB	5.5832755e-05
9,417	Towards Observability for Production Machine Learning Pipelines	2022	VLDB	5.1803615e-05
9,581	Glean: Structured Extractions from Templatic Documents	2021	VLDB	5.1571823e-05
9,675	Debugging Large-Scale Data Science Pipelines using Dagger	2020	VLDB	5.1438113e-05
10,352	Towards Scalable Visual Data Wrangling via Direct Manipulation	2026	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
10,855	PipeLens: Identifying Interventions for Resolving Malfunctioning Data Science Pipelines	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,417	Buckaroo: A Direct Manipulation Visual Data Wrangler	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,821	Towards Observability for Machine Learning Pipelines	2022	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
13,749	Data Cleaning in the Era of Data Science: Challenges and Opportunities	2021	CIDR	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,355	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.0001092646
1,691	MISTIQUE: A System to Store and Query Model Intermediates for Model Diagnosis	2018	SIGMOD	9.8570722e-05
1,992	OrpheusDB: Bolt-on Versioning for Relational Databases	2017	VLDB	9.2366883e-05
2,280	Decibel: The Relational Dataset Branching System	2016	VLDB	8.7038926e-05
3,167	HELIX: Accelerating Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning	2018	VLDB	7.5728577e-05
3,955	Smile: A System to Support Machine Learning on EEG Data at Scale	2019	VLDB	6.9025583e-05
7,291	Data Civilizer 2.0: A Holistic Framework for Data Preparation and Analytics	2019	VLDB	5.5642829e-05

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