Event Sequence Analysis using Self Organizing Map

In today’s world we have abundance of data and scarcity of Knowledge data mining field emerged as the fit of thetool to the problem. With the advent of internet technology and the exponential growth in the technology behind theworld wide web, the concept of web mining and found a place for itself and emerged as a separate field of research.Web mining involves a wide range of applications that aim at discovering and extracting hidden information in datastored on the Web. Web log analysis is an innovative and unique field constantly formed and changed by theconvergence of various emerging Web technologies. Due to its interdisciplinary character, the diversity of issues itaddresses, and the variety and number of Web applications, it is the subject of many distinctive and diverse researchmethodologies. This chapter examines research methodologies used by contributing authors in preparing theindividual chapters for this handbook, summarizes research results, and proposes new directions for future researchin this area.