Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Quality is in the eye of the beholder: meeting users' requirements for Internet quality of service
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Generic Schema Matching with Cupid
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Model management 2.0: manipulating richer mappings
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Mashup Advisor: A Recommendation Tool for Mashup Development
ICWS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
VisGets: Coordinated Visualizations for Web-based Information Exploration and Discovery
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
End-user programming of mashups with vegemite
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Behavior-driven visualization recommendation
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
MatchUp: Autocompletion for Mashups
ICDE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
Summarizing relational databases
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Data integration for the relational web
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Overview of sciDB: large scale array storage, processing and analysis
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
VizDeck: self-organizing dashboards for visual analytics
SIGMOD '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
VizDeck: a card game metaphor for fast visual data exploration
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(In?)extricable links between data and visualization: preliminary results from the VISTAS project
SSDBM'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
Real-time collaborative analysis with (almost) pure SQL: a case study in biogeochemical oceanography
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
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Database technology remains underused in science, especially in the long tail -- the small labs and individual researchers that collectively produce the majority of scientific output. These researchers increasingly require iterative, ad hoc analysis over ad hoc databases but cannot individually invest in the computational and intellectual infrastructure required for state-of-the-art solutions. We describe a new "delivery vector" for database technology called SQL-Share that emphasizes ad hoc integration, query, sharing, and visualization over pre-defined schemas. To empower non-experts to write complex queries, we synthesize example queries from the data itself and explore limited English hints to augment the process. We integrate collaborative visualization via a web-based service called VizDeck that uses automated visualization techniques with a card game metaphor to allow creation of interactive visual dashboards in seconds with zero programming. We present data on the initial uptake and usage of the system and report preliminary results testingout new features with the datasets collected during the initial pilot deployment. We conclude that the SQLShare system and associated services have the potential to increase uptake of relational database technology in the long tail of science.