Exploring web logs with coordinated OLAP dimension hierarchies

  • Authors:
  • Mark Sifer

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • DNIS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Databases in Networked Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Multi-dimensional data occurs in many domains while a wide variety of text based and visual interfaces for querying such data exists. But many of these interfaces are not applicable to OLAP, as they do not support the use of dimension hierarchies for selection and aggregation. We introduce an interface technique which supports visual querying of OLAP data. It is based on a data graph rather than a data cube representation of the data. Our interface presents each dimension hierarchy in a zoomable panel which supports selection and aggregation at multiple levels. Users explore data and query by making selections in several dimension views. Three view coordinations are identified; progressive, global and result only. We demonstrate our interface technique with an example web log dataset of site visits organised into time, downloads, visitor address and referrer address dimensions. This article provides an extended treatment of an earlier short paper [6].