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New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics

Summary: Tutorial on example-based exploratory querying: users provide result exemplars instead of complex declarative queries, enabling flexible, immediate data understanding. Surveys data-type-specific algorithms for relational, textual, and graph data. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
hf2e7900ed5a7ae49
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
5.8123256e-05
Overall Rank
6,330 | 57.45%
DOI
10.14778/3137765.3137813

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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BibTeX Citation

@article{mottin_vldb17,
        title = {{New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics}},
        author = {Mottin, Davide and Lissandrini, Matteo and Velegrakis, Yannis and Palpanas, Themis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1977--1980},
        doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137813},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137813},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

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4,497 Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview 2020 SIGMOD 6.5763072e-05
6,162 Guided Exploration of User Groups 2020 VLDB 5.8644841e-05
6,431 X2Q: Your Personal Example-based Graph Explorer 2018 VLDB 5.7884926e-05
8,510 Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples 2019 SIGMOD 5.326492e-05
9,868 A Flexible Framework for Query-oriented Interactive Community Search 2025 VLDB 5.1176637e-05
12,148 Data Pipelines for User Group Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
367 InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00019884846
1,094 BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations 2016 VLDB 0.0001205355
1,211 Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction 2015 VLDB 0.00011524858
1,272 Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011248674
1,912 MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples 1998 VLDB 9.3904326e-05
2,412 S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery 2015 SIGMOD 8.5101348e-05
2,648 Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration 2014 SIGMOD 8.1761271e-05
3,481 SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example 2016 VLDB 7.2668673e-05
4,215 Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples 2017 SIGMOD 6.7285738e-05
4,660 Reverse Engineering SPJ-Queries from Examples 2017 PODS 6.4822086e-05
4,838 Interactive Query Synthesis from Input-Output Examples 2017 SIGMOD 6.3871056e-05
6,254 The Minimum Wiener Connector Problem 2015 SIGMOD 5.8337783e-05
7,999 Searching with XQ: the eXemplar Query Search Engine 2014 SIGMOD 5.4102724e-05
8,653 Synthesizing Extraction Rules from User Examples with SEER 2017 SIGMOD 5.2941459e-05
8,654 Diversity based Relevance Feedback for Time Series Search 2014 VLDB 5.2941459e-05
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