msnbc.com anonymous web data
Abstract
This data describes the page visits of users who visited msnbc.com on September 28, 1999. Visits are recorded at the level of URL category (see description) and are recorded in time order.
Information files:- Description of the data(数据描述见附录)
Data files: 数据挖掘研究院
Data Type
Discrete sequence 数据挖掘研究院
Abstract
This data describes the page visits of users who visited msnbc.com on September 28, 1999. Visits are recorded at the level of URL category (see below) and are recorded in time order.
Sources
David Heckerman (heckerma@microsoft.com)
Data Characteristics
The data comes from Internet Information Server (IIS) logs for msnbc.com and news-related portions of msn.com for the entire day of September, 28, 1999 (Pacific Standard Time). Each sequence in the dataset corresponds to page views of a user during that twenty-four hour period. Each event in the sequence corresponds to a user′s request for a page. Requests are not recorded at the finest level of detail---that is, at the level of URL, but rather, they are recorded at the level of page category (as determined by a site administrator). The categories are "frontpage", "news", "tech", "local", "opinion", "on-air", "misc", "weather", "health", "living", "business", "sports", "summary", "bbs" (bulletin board service), "travel", "msn-news", and "msn-sports". Any page requests served via a caching mechanism were not recorded in the server logs and, hence, not present in the data.
Other Relevant Information
- Number of users: 989818
- Average number of vitis per user: 5.7
- Number of URLs per category: 10 to 5000
Data Format
Here are the first 20 lines of the ascii data file: 数据挖掘研究院
% Different categories found in input file: frontpage news tech local opinion on-air misc weather msn-news health living business msn-sports sports summary bbs travel % Sequences: 1 1 2 3 2 2 4 2 2 2 3 3 5 1 6 1 1 6 6 7 7 7 6 6 8 8 8 8 6 9 4 4 4 10 3 10 5 10 4 4 4 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 12 12 1 1 数据挖掘研究院
Each category is associated--in order--with an integer starting with "1". For example, "frontpage" is associated with 1, "news" with 2, and "tech" with 3. Each row below "% Sequences:" describes the hits--in order--of a single user. For example, the first user hits "frontpage" twice, and the second user hits "news" once. 数据挖掘研究院
Past Usage
I. Cadez, D. Heckerman, C. Meek, P. Smyth, S. White, "Visualization of navigation patterns on a Web site using model-based clustering," Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, accepted for publication. 数据挖掘实验室
Acknowledgements, Copyright Information, and Availability
This data is avaliable thanks to msnbc.com
