title: Visualizing Digital Forensic Datasets: A Proof of Concept.
abstract: Digital forensic visualization is an understudied area despite its potential to achieve significant improvements in the efficiency of an investigation, criminal or civil. In this study, a three-stage forensic data storage and visualization life cycle is presented. The first stage is the decoding of data, which involves preparing both structured and unstructured data for storage. In the storage stage, data are stored within our proposed database schema designed for ensuring data integrity and speed of storage and retrieval. The final stage is the visualization of stored data in a manner that facilitates user interaction. These functionalities are implemented in a proof of concept to demonstrate the utility of the proposed life cycle. The proof of concept demonstrates the utility of the proposed approach for the storage and visualization of digital forensic data.
authors.affiliation: School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia.
authors.forename: Christopher F R
authors.initials: CFR
authors.lastname: Tassone
authors.affiliation: School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.affiliation: School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia.|Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249-0631.
authors.forename: Kim-Kwang Raymond
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Choo
keywords: 
  MSAB XRY
  ; digital forensics; forensic science; forensic visualization; geographic map plots; mobile device forensics; treemap; word cloud