Web Analysis Visualization Spreadsheet.
Ed Huai-hsin · 1999
In this paper, we present methods of information visualization that applies to the discovery of patterns in World-Wide Web sites. We hope to use techniques of information visualization to help in the organization and categorization of Web sites. We present a detailed case study of using the spreadsheet to analyze the content, usage, and structure of a large Web site. We demonstrate how the visualization spreadsheet principles apply in this specific data domain. 1 Introduction Currently, producers, organizers, and users of content on the World Wide Web must use technologies that are spartan in providing cues that would make their lives easier. For comparison, the librarian or experienced user of a physical library can usually tell, with some ease, the general layout of content, figure out which books are of greatest interest to the community (e.g., by the wear on the book spines), and figure out what's timely or deadwood (e.g., by looking at the circulation checkout stamps inside the ...