Visual cluster exploration of web clickstream data

IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2012, VAST 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-12

  Wei, Jishang ^a   Shen, Zeqian ^b   Sundaresan, Neel ^b   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EBAY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLICKSTREAM DATA; CLICKSTREAMS; CLUSTERING RESULTS; COMPLEX DATASETS; DATA SETS; INTUITIVE USER INTERFACE; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; USER BEHAVIOR PATTERNS; VISUAL ANALYTICS SYSTEMS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MARKOV PROCESSES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84872966556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2012.6400494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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