The paper introduces DAG-EDA, a system that pairs an intent graph and a multi-layered knowledge graph to help analysts navigate exploratory data analysis. The intent graph, driven by a grammar of analytical intent, breaks down ambiguous natural-language questions into concrete analysis tasks while preserving alternative paths for branching and comparison. The knowledge graph externalizes domain knowledge from a large language model, linking concepts to dataset variables so analysts can inspect and challenge how their questions map to data, with results displayed as interactive dashboards.
arXiv:2610.02679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data journalism, the practice of using data analysis to surface newsworthy stories, depends increasingly on the ability of reporters and investigative...
arXiv:2609.14528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) tasks require models to assemble relational evidence along paths in a KG to answer natural-langua...
AdaLens is an interactive system designed to monitor and steer long-running, autonomous data analysis workflows powered by large language models. It provides a storyline-based interface that unifies analytical plans, execution progress, intermediate findings, and data-column involvement, enabling analysts to observe evolving reasoning and evidence. The system also offers steering interactions that allow users to redirect low-value directions or deepen promising ones during execution.
arXiv:2607. 06482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current benchmarks for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) in data analysis often fail to reflect real-world settings.
The paper introduces Open Tabular Insight Extraction (OpenTI), a unified framework aimed at democratizing access to insights from large table corpora. It highlights how current research is fragmented across domains like table QA, text‑to‑SQL, and data analysis agents, and shows that existing systems and benchmarks fall short of covering the full end‑to‑end scope of OpenTI. The authors propose a consolidated terminology, conduct a systematic review, and outline a research agenda for developing comprehensive OpenTI systems, evaluation methods, and interaction paradigms.
arXiv:2608.28594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational analytics systems assume the user already has a well-formed question, leaving a non-expert facing a blank query box on an unfamiliar ent...
DataSTORM is an LLM‑based agentic system designed to conduct deep research over large‑scale structured databases and internet sources. It applies principles of Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Storytelling to frame research as a thesis‑driven analytical process, iteratively generating hypotheses, performing quantitative reasoning, and crafting coherent narratives. Evaluations on InsightBench and a new ACLED‑based dataset show that DataSTORM surpasses existing systems, achieving significant improvements in insight‑level recall and summary‑level scores.
arXiv:2608. 16045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based data-analysis tools are increasingly used to help users analyze messy spreadsheets and workbooks, from answering questions over uploaded files to generating code, summaries, and visualizations.
arXiv:2608. 06331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: From natural-language query interfaces to automated report generation, data analysis tools need a description of the data: the real-world entities it contains, which columns function as measures or identifiers, and how tables connect into units of analysis.
arXiv:2606. 16603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in data-intensive analytical tasks, yet their outputs are rarely verifiable: a reliance on linear text trajectories makes their reasoning difficult to audit.
arXiv:2608.23205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have revolutionized reasoning in LLMs, and the increasing public availability of reasoning traces creates valuable opport...
arXiv:2606. 06416v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference-time skill augmentation provides a lightweight way to improve data-analytic agents by injecting reusable procedural knowledge without updating model parameters.