Understanding Patterns of User Visits to Web Sites: Interactive Starfield Visualization of WWW Log Data

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dc.contributor.authorHochheiser, Harryen_US
dc.contributor.authorShneiderman, Benen_US
dc.contributor.departmentISRen_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-05-23T10:06:59Z
dc.date.available2007-05-23T10:06:59Z
dc.date.issued1999en_US
dc.description.abstractHTTP server log files provide Web site operators with substantial detail regarding the visitors to their sites. Interest in interpreting this data has spawned an active market for software packages that summarize and analyze this data, providing histograms, pie graphs, and other charts summarizing usage patterns. While useful, these summaries obscure useful information and restrict users to passive interpretation of static displays. Interactive starfield visualizations can be used to provide users with greater abilities to interpret and explore web log data. By combining two-dimensional displays of thousands of individual access requests, colorand size coding for additional attributes, and facilities for zooming andfiltering, these visualizations provide capabilities for examining data that exceed those of traditional web log analysis tools. We introduce a series of interactive starfield visualizations, which can be used to explore server data across various dimensions. Possible uses of these visualizations are discussed, and difficulties of data collection, presen-tation, and interpretation are explored.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/6009
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesISR; TR 1999-3en_US
dc.subjectWorld-Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectLog File Analysisen_US
dc.subjectInformation Visualization,en_US
dc.titleUnderstanding Patterns of User Visits to Web Sites: Interactive Starfield Visualization of WWW Log Dataen_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US

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