It seems like 30 or 40 years ago. It was a very hot summer in Rochester, NY in the year 2001. However, I was always surrounded by a nice and comfortable 72 degree Fahrenheit. I spent that entire summer indoors working on my thesis project, trying to complete my M.S. (in what I call Multimedia Development to avoid confusion, but RIT officially calls Information Technology). The fruit of my labor (and that of a certain Dr. Victor Perotti) was perhaps the greatest Web Visualization Statistics Application Utilizing Multi-Dimensional Scaling EVER!

What else can I say about it. Probably about 40 more pages or so, but the last sentence of the above paragraph pretty much sums it up. Well, if you want to read the other 40 pages and also take a hot test drive on this mother of all web visualization tools, check it! Its now available for public consumption. Although there are some things (like crontab'ing the server-side java processes and documenting so that others can install as well) that are not done. You do need to log-in to this thing. Username is admin, password is superman.

A quick synopsis of what you will see. Web Usage Plots are a scatter plot of the pages on this site. The distance between each page is the pyschological distance the site's users correspond to each page relative to the others. For example, if people only go from page 'A' to page 'C' and never associate page 'B' with either 'A' or 'C', the distance between 'A' and 'C' will be relatively small (closely associated together) while the distance from 'B' to 'A' or 'B' to 'C' will be a relatively larger distance. Rollover the point in the scatter plot to see which page it represents. Its less complicated then it sounds. Enjoy!