In this case study, we describe how we use measurements taken from web analytics and search log analysis with findings from usability testing to inform the development of web site. We describe an example of triangulating data taken from all three sources to help make design decisions; an example of drawing on web analytics and search log analysis to inform our choices of tasks during a measurem...

Tensors, or multi dimensional arrays, are receiving significant attentions due to the various types of data that can be modeled by them; examples include call graphs (sender, receiver, time), knowledge bases (subject, verb, object), 3-dimensional web graphs augmented with anchor texts, to name a few. Scalable tensor mining aims to extract important patterns and anomalies from a large amount of ...

This paper investigates the predictive power of online communities traffic in regard to stock prices. Using the largest dataset to date, spanning 8 years and almost the complete set of SP500 stocks, we analyze the predictive power of raw unstructured traffic by filtering stock daily returns with traffic features. Our results partially challenge the assumption that raw traffic simply trails stoc...

Our paper investigates the potential uses of path analysis in web site traffic analysis, navigation, and design. We define a new algorithm for determining the similarity between two paths in a graph and apply it to parsed access logs for websites. We implement our algorithm and use it to generate graphical representations of website usage patterns. Next, we discuss methods for improving the rep...

Network traffic analysis is a process to infer patterns in communication. Reliance on computer network and increasing connectivity of these networks makes it a challenging task for the network managers to understand the nature of the traffic that is carried in their network. However, it is an important data analysis task, given the amount of network traffic generated. Summarization is a key dat...

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis does not provide an analytical means to determine the importance of the identified factors or the ability to assess decision alternatives according to these factors. Although the analysis successfully pinpoints the factors, individual factors are usually described briefly and very generally. For this reason, SWOT analysis possesse...