applied sciences Article Pattern-Based and Visual Analytics for Visitor Analysis on Websites Bárbara Cervantes 1 , Fernando Gómez 1 , Raúl Monroy 1 , Octavio Loyola-González 2,* , Miguel Angel Medina-Pérez 1 and José Ramírez-Márquez 3 1 Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Science, Carretera al Lago de Guadalupe Km. 3.5, Atizapán, Estado de México 52926, Mexico 2 Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Science, Vía Atlixcáyotl No. 2301, Reserva Territorial Atlixcáyotl, Puebla 72453, Mexico 3 Enterprise Science and Engineering Division, Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Systems & Enterprises, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA * Correspondence:
[email protected] Received: 3 July 2019; Accepted: 27 August 2019; Published: 12 September 2019 Featured Application: We present a tool to analyze web log files, complemented by applying pattern mining techniques to characterize segments of users. Abstract: In this paper, We present how we combined visualization and machine learning techniques to provide an analytic tool for web log data.We designed a visualization where advertisers can observe the visits to their different pages on a site, common web analytic measures and individual user navigation on the site. In this visualization, the users can get insights of the data by looking at key elements of the graph. Additionally, we applied pattern mining techniques to observe common trends in user segments of interest. Keywords: pattern mining; data visualization; log analysis 1. Introduction Analyzing and describing visitor behavior of an e-commerce site is of interest to web marketing teams, especially when assessing ad campaigns. Marketing teams are interested in quantifying their human visitors and characterizing them, for example, to discover the common elements of visitors who made a conversion (e-commerce purpose).