Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe 07 - Aufgabe 3 - Prototyp

Group 7

Josef Froschauer
Thomas Lehrer
Erwin Starl
Seung-bin Yim

Task

Create a tool to analyze a web server log file on user behaviour.

Implementation

The current version uses a randomized data creation routine to populate the web log. Every web page has a list of "LineObjects", i.e. lines of the log file, which belong to this particular resource. This line contains the following information: Browser, operating system, date, weekday, country of origin and, if available, referer.

Often used outside referers (pages from other sites) are displayed on the left pane, all other pages on the right side. Each page is represented by a dot with relative size and each connection (referer) is shown by a triangle, pointing to the target page. Within each dot an arc displays the time this page has been looked at (if available), of course also only a relative value.

Things to try

• Clicking on a browser, operating system or weekday check box reduces or increases the displayed data set. Numbers next to the settings change accordingly.
  
• Clicking on a web page in net view also updates these numbers: The time lens and filters show the number of accesses to this resource. Releasing the mouse button resets that view.
  
• Clicking on the Time Lense currently only zooms in on that year.

Things to wait for

• Advanced Time Lense with Range Slider
• Filtering by world map
• Import
• Placing algorithm