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Web mining
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Web mining
Analyzing a Web site or all of the Web. Web "usage" mining determines the navigation patterns of users on a site and is derived from the server logs. Web "structure" mining examines the link hierarchy of a site in order to improve navigation. Web "content" mining explores the data contained in related sites in order to provide better resources for visitors. See data mining and text mining.


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With plenty of examples to guide readers from the basics to advanced techniques Markov and Larose cover the basics of web structure mining, including information retrieval and web searches and hyperlink-based ranking, web content mining, including clustering, evaluating clustering and classification and web usage mining, including preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, and modeling for web usage mining through clustering, association and classification.
The fact that only activities are recorded makes web usage mining different from data mining in general.
This issue is similar to web usage mining, by which web log records are used to track user access patterns of Web pages (Han, & Kamber, 2001).
 
 
 
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