title: Applying a sunburst visualization to summarize user navigation sequences.
abstract: For many Web-based applications, it's important to be able to analyze the paths users have taken through a site--for example, to understand how they're discovering engaging content. These paths are difficult to summarize visually because of the underlying data's complexity. A Google researcher applied a sunburst visualization to this problem, after simplifying the data into a hierarchical format. The resulting visualization was successful in YouTube and is widely referenced and accessed. The code for the visualization is available as open source.
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rodden
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D006801:Humans; D007254:Information Science; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014584:User-Computer Interface