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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Aug 25.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Data Sci. 2025 Jan 9;12(1):413–437. doi: 10.1007/s40745-024-00586-5

Table 3.

Features explored within unsupervised machine learning

Feature name Data type Feature description
Accreditations Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session
Apprenticeship Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session
Bounces Binary Flags if the session was a single page visit only
Contact-us Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session
Courses Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session
Customised-engineering-trading Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session
daysSinceLastSession Numeric The number of days a user is returning to the website
Distance Numeric The Euclidean distance between the user’s co-ordinates and the company’s co-ordinates (owner of the website)
Engineering-academic-studies Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session
Engineering-Trade Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session
Hits Numeric Represents any action on a webpage that results in data being sent to Google Analytics (such as page clicks, etc.)
Home Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session
OrganicSearches Binary Flag to indicate if the user organically constructed a search that resulted in landing onto the webpage (a web link was not clicked)
Pageviews Numeric The number of instances a page was loaded (or reloaded)
sessionCount Numeric An indicator of the nth time the user has accessed the website
SessionDuration Numeric The duration of the session (seconds)
Short-courses-skilled-programmes Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session
Trade-test-arpl Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session
University-of-technology-uot Numeric Count of visits the user made to this page within each session