Introducing the example projects

This is a good time to introduce the example projects that we are going to work on in the book. The three examples are varied in the type of data they are presenting, in the hope that the examples will present the user with different ways of visualizing and working with different data. It may be worth getting the data indexed so that you can start to get an idea of what we will be working with.

NASA HTTP data

Although the data is a little old, I think it can give an interesting insight into the web traffic for the NASA website. The data is from 1995 and contains two traces of two months of all HTTP requests to the web server at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The log files are Squid proxy logs and provide details ...

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