R: Data Analysis and Visualization

Web data mining

Web mining aims to discover useful information or knowledge from the web hyperlink structure, page, and usage data. The Web is one of the biggest data sources to serve as the input for data mining applications.

Web data mining is based on IR, machine learning (ML), statistics, pattern recognition, and data mining. Web mining is not purely a data mining problem because of the heterogeneous and semistructured or unstructured web data, although many data mining approaches can be applied to it.

Web mining tasks can be defined into at least three types:

• Web structure mining: This helps to find useful information or valuable structural summary about sites and pages from hyperlinks
• Web content mining: This helps to mine useful information ...