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A\\'ecio Solano Rodrigues Santos
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2021
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The increasing availability of structured datasets, from Web tables and open-data portals to enterprise data, opens up opportunities~to enrich analytics and improve machine learning models through relational data augmentation. In this paper, we introduce a new class of data augmentation queries: join-correlation queries. Given a column $Q$ and a join column $K_Q$ from a query table $mathcal{T}_Q$, retrieve tables $mathcal{T}_X$ in a dataset collection such that $mathcal{T}_X$ is joinable with $mathcal{T}_Q$ on $K_Q$ and there is a column $C in mathcal{T}_X$ such that $Q$ is correlated with $C$. A naive approach to evaluate these queries, which first finds joinable tables and then explicitly joins and computes correlations between $Q$ and all columns of the discovered tables, is prohibitively expensive. To efficiently support correlated column discovery, we 1) propose a sketching method that enables the construction of an index for a large number of tables and that provides accurate estimates for join-correlation queries, and 2) explore different scoring strategies that effectively rank the query results based on how well the columns are correlated with the query. We carry out a detailed experimental evaluation, using both synthetic and real data, which shows that our sketches attain high accuracy and the scoring strategies lead to high-quality rankings.
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