4 papers
Seasoning Data Modeling Education with GARLIC: A Participatory Co-Design Framework
Viktoriia Makovska, Ihor Michurin, Mariia Tokhtamysh +2
Entity-Relationship (ER) modeling is commonly taught as a primarily technical activity, despite its central role in shaping how data systems represent people, processes, and instit…
An Epistemic and Aleatoric Decomposition of Arbitrariness to Constrain the Set of Good Models
Falaah Arif Khan, Denys Herasymuk, Nazar Protsiv +1
Recent research reveals that machine learning (ML) models are highly sensitive to minor changes in their training procedure, such as the inclusion or exclusion of a single data poi…
The Cambridge Report on Database Research
Anastasia Ailamaki, Samuel Madden, Daniel Abadi +43
On October 19 and 20, 2023, the authors of this report convened in Cambridge, MA, to discuss the state of the database research field, its recent accomplishments and ongoing challe…
Are Data Experts Buying into Differentially Private Synthetic Data? Gathering Community Perspectives
Lucas Rosenblatt, Bill Howe, Julia Stoyanovich
Data privacy is a core tenet of responsible computing, and in the United States, differential privacy (DP) is the dominant technical operationalization of privacy-preserving data a…