Catching the heartbeat of the data management community: perspectives on exciting and controversial topics, from and for the ACM SIGMOD community.
Data visualization and analytics are nowadays one of the cornerstones of Data Science, turning the abundance of Big Data being produced through modern systems into actionable knowledge. Indeed, the Big Data era has realized the availability of voluminous datasets that are dynamic, noisy and…
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It might seem obvious that reducing social movement will reduce the spread of infection. However, it is not obvious how much it will reduce. Will it be enough to stop the virus? Will it only slow it down? How long do we expect the virus to last in regions with differing population densities? While…
Read more…Data visualization and analytics are nowadays one of the cornerstones of Data Science, turning the abundance of Big Data being produced through modern systems into actionable knowledge. Indeed, the Big Data era has realized the availability of voluminous datasets that are dynamic, noisy and…
Read more…This post introduces and explains the newly created category of “Scalable Data Science” within the Research Track of PVLDB. This category comes into effect for volume 14, i.e., submissions starting April 1, 2020, which will be evaluated by the Review Board of PVLDB vol 14 for presentation at VLDB…
Read more…The importance of diversity and inclusion has been widely recognized by now and efforts toward this goal are commonplace in almost all settings. Diversity and inclusion, however, remains challenging, and even well-intentioned efforts do not always work. In this blog post, we report on our…
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Shonan Village Workshop on FoW Sep 8-12, 2019 We envision the Future of Work (FoW) to be a place where humans are empowered with the ability to rely on AI machines in an on-demand fashion, with ability to juggle diverse job opportunities that provide intellectual self-actualization, and enhance…
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The vision of natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDBs) is to make data stores more accessible for a wide range of non-tech savvy end users with the ultimate goal to talk to a database (almost) like to a human. While initially the database community focused on relational databases, there is…
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The recent return of AI summer and the enthusiastic uptake of AI in the commercial world can be loosely attributed to three innovations: Apple’s Siri, Google’s self-driving cars, and IBM Watson Jeopardy. This enthusiasm stems from the belief that AI will influence a wide range of applications…
Read more…After being largely neglected in the rush to capitalize on the promise and the potential of Big Data, data privacy and data stewardship issues have resurfaced in industry with a vengeance over the last year. This has been driven, in part, by the increased scrutiny by regulatory bodies all over the…
Read more…Overview of DEEM 2018 The ACM SIGMOD Second Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning (DEEM) was successfully held last June in Houston, TX. The goal of DEEM is to bring together researchers and practitioners at the intersection of applied machine learning (ML) and data…
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