Session Viewer: Visual exploratory analysis of web session logs

VAST IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2007, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 147-154

  Lam, Heidi ^a   Russell, Daniel ^b   Tang, Diane ^b   Munzner, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Visual exploratory data analysis; Web session log analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; LOG ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE COORDINATED VIEWS; MULTIPLE SESSIONS; SELECTION BIAS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 47349122941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2007.4389008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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