I've finally finished the first draft of my thesis, I now have a week and a few days to edit and finish it- which is plenty of time since I'm fairly happy with it as it stands. Another of Webscavator's visualisations is a word cloud for search engine query terms. The more a term has … Continue reading Visualising data: Search Terms
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Visualising data: File Directories
Some index.dat files record not only websites visited, but also the files on the computer (and any other devices) which have been opened. This gives an accurate account of what files have been viewed and possibly edited. Using the registry, any files accessed that are not on the C: drive can be linked to a USB stick … Continue reading Visualising data: File Directories
Visualising data: Heatmaps
I've nearly finished Webscavator, my visualisation application for the forensic analysis of user web history! The next series of blog posts will describe some of the visualisations I've used and how to code them. They are all written in server-side Python and client-side Javascript using jQuery. First on the list are heatmaps. These visualisations show the data … Continue reading Visualising data: Heatmaps
Masters Project
I asked one of my lecturers about doing text visualisation as my masters thesis and he said it sounded great, even emailed me a paper to read! I don't have an exact question yet, but it'll be something along the lines of visualising web browser history. I'm quite excited about it weeee! I'll have to … Continue reading Masters Project
Top 10 usability crimes and text visualization
I found a really good article called the 10 usability crimes you really shouldn't commit and I have updated the website according to adhere to some of the principles - mainly making the website logo now a link to the home page and indicating the active form field for comments below. I didn't actually realise you could … Continue reading Top 10 usability crimes and text visualization
FireFox usage
Great little tool on FirefoxForensics to do the same sort of thing as with IE. Firefox stores its cache of URLs etc in sqlite databases, which can be found in this folder: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profilename] For example there is a cookies.sqlite, formhistory.sqlite and downloads.sqlite for starters! I wish IE would be this neat! I have updated my graph … Continue reading FireFox usage
Internet Explorer usage
For one of my labs this week we had to browse a few websites using IE and then using an Internet Explorer analysis tool find out as much info as possible about what we looked at. IE logs all browser activity in index.dat files. The data stored includes the URL, data and time of last modification and … Continue reading Internet Explorer usage
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