Market Basket Analysis with Shortened Web Link Click Data
Abstract
Market research is an indispensable part of an organization's ability to understand market dynamics in an area. Over the past 20 years data collection and analysis through Knowledge Discovery through Databases (KDD) has arisen to supplement the traditional methods of surveys and focus groups. Market Basket Analysis is an area of KDD that identifies associations between commonly purchased items. As social media use has grown, link shortening companies help users share links in a constrained space environment and, in exchange, collect data about each user when a link is clicked. This research applies market basket analysis techniques with graph mining to shortened web link data to identify communities of co-visited websites to help analysts better understand web trac for an area during a time range. Patterns within clusters of web domains regarding hardware platforms, operating systems, or referral sources are then identified and used to gain a better understanding of an area.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 22, 2018
- Accession Number
- AD1056329
Entities
People
- James C. Gallagher
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology