Conference PaperAn Exploratory Interface for Dataset Repositories Using Cell-Centric IndexingJohnson, Drake; Register, Keith; Davison, Brian D.; Heflin, JeffnullLarge collections of datasets are being published on the Web at an increasing rate. This poses a problem to researchers and data journalists who must sift through these large quantities of data to find datasets that meet their needs. Our solution to this problem is cell-centric indexing, a novel approach which considers the individual cell of a dataset to be the fundamental unit of search, indexing the corresponding metadata to each individual cell. This facilitates a new style of user interface that allows users to explore the collection via histograms that show the distributions of various terms organized by how they are used in the dataset.2020-12-1010232383IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020)5716 - 5718https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData50022.2020.93780571757787; 1816325National Science Foundation