UWDB Affiliates Workshop 2017: Database Usability

Where:

Gates Commons, CSE 691, Paul G. Allen Center,

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering,

University of Washington, Seattle.

When:

Thursday, June 29, 8:30am - 5pm

All talks are 20 minutes, with 5 minutes afterwards for questions

Schedule:

8:30-9am: Coffee & Tea

9am-10:40am: Interacting with Users

Chair: Alvin Cheung

• Dominik Moritz (UWDB/IDL): Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics

• Justin Talbot (Tableau): Pitfalls in Programmatically Generating SQL

• Srini Iyer (UWDB): Natural Language Based Source Code Generation and Summarization

• Chenglong Wang (UWPLSE): Scythe: Bringing SQL to the Masses via Program Synthesis

10:40-11am: Break

11am-12:15pm: Collecting Insights from Data

Chair: Dan Suciu

• Babak Salimi (UWDB): A Database System to Explain Away Simpson’s Paradox

• Bolin Ding (MSR): Building an AQP engine for Explorative Visualization

• Eric Boutin (MemSQL): Real Time Analytics with PIPELINE

12:15-1:15pm: Lunch

1:15-2:55pm: Systems Management

Chair: Magda Balazinska

• Jennifer Ortiz (UWDB): PerfEnforce: A Dynamic Scaling Engine for Analytics with Performance Guarantees

• Doug Brown (Teradata): Teradata Workload Management and the challenges of autonomics

• Shumo Chu (UWDB): Cosette: An automated SQL Prover

• Tomer Kaftan (UWDB): Cuttlefish: A Lightweight Primitive for Adaptive Optimization

2:55-3:20pm Break

3:20-4:35pm Use Cases from Domain Sciences

Chair: Alvin Cheung

• Sean Mooney (UW Medicial Informatics): Research in an Academic Medical Center Through Innovative Uses of Data

• Emilio Zagheni (UW Sociology): Evaluating demographic quantities from non-representative social media data

• Bing Brunton (UW Biology): Multimodal neural decoding for long-term, unlabled human brain data

4:35pm: Reception