Causal data integration

B Youngmann, M Cafarella, B Salimi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Causal inference is fundamental to empirical scientific discoveries in natural and social
sciences; however, in the process of conducting causal inference, data management …

Nexus: Correlation Discovery over Collections of Spatio-Temporal Tabular Data

Y Gong, S Galhotra, R Castro Fernandez - … of the ACM on Management of …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Causal analysis is essential for gaining insights into complex real-world processes and
making informed decisions. However, performing accurate causal analysis on observational …

Why not yet: Fixing a top-k ranking that is not fair to individuals

Z Chen, P Manolios, M Riedewald - Proceedings of the VLDB …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This work considers why-not questions in the context of top-k queries and score-based
ranking functions. Following the popular linear scalarization approach for multi-objective …

Stage: Query Execution Time Prediction in Amazon Redshift

Z Wu, R Marcus, Z Liu, P Negi, V Nathan… - Companion of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Query performance (eg, execution time) prediction is a critical component of modern
DBMSes. As a pioneering cloud data warehouse, Amazon Redshift relies on an accurate …

Causal What-If and How-To Analysis Using HypeR

F Shen, K Heravi, O Gomez, S Galhotra… - 2023 IEEE 39th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What-if and How-to queries are fundamental data analysis questions that provide insights
about the effects of a hypothetical update without actually making changes to the database …

Toward interpretable and actionable data analysis with explanations and causality

S Roy - Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We live in a world dominated by data, where users from different fields routinely collect,
study, and make decisions supported by data. To aid these users, the current trend in data …

Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views

B Youngmann, M Cafarella, A Gilad, S Roy - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
SQL queries with group-by and average are frequently used and plotted as bar charts in
several data analysis applications. Understanding the reasons behind the results in such an …

Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage

S An, Y Cao - Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, 2024 - dl.acm.org
While counterfactuals have been extensively studied as an intuitive explanation of model
predictions, they still have limited adoption in practice due to two obstacles:(a) They rely on …

The resilience of conjunctive queries with inequalities

B Qin, D Li, C Zhou - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The resilience of a query q (RES (q)) measures the minimum number of source tuples
responsible for a specific query answer. If q is an IQ query, whose at most one attribute from …

Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views (Full version)

B Youngmann, M Cafarella, A Gilad, S Roy - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
SQL queries with group-by and average are frequently used and plotted as bar charts in
several data analysis applications. Understanding the reasons behind the results in such an …