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The Expert Witness Report Of Bernard J. Jansen In Support Of Virginia Roberts (Part 1) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  In this episode, we're diving right back into the court
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  documents and we're going to take a look at the
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  expert witness report of doctor Bernard Jay Jansen, who is
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  a professor at the College of Information of Sciences and
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  Technology at penn State University, regarding the case of Virginia
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  Roberts and Galaine Maxwell. Introduction. I have been retained by
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  the law firm of Farmer Jaffey, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos and
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  Layerman Pel to provide expert analysis and opinion on behalf
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  of Miss Virginia Roberts in Virginia Roberts Plaintiff versus Glaiine Maxwell, Defendant.
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  Two qualifications. I am a tenured full professor at the
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  College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University,
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  University Park, Pennsylvania, where I've been employed since two thousand
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  and one. I am the director of the Information and
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  Learning Laboratory at the College of Information Sciences and Technology
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  at penn State University. I am also a principal scientist
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  at the Cutter Computing Research Institute. I was a senior
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  fellow at the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which
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  is part of the Pew Research Center. From twenty ten
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  to twenty twelve, I was also a university expert at
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  the National Ground Intelligence Center from twenty eleven through twenty fourteen.
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  Prior to my employment at the Pennsylvania State University, I
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  was a lecturer in the Computer science program at the
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  University of Maryland Asian Division for one year. Before that,
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  I was an assistant professor and lecturer in the Department
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  of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States
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  Military Academy AKA West Point for three years. Number three.
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  In addition to my academic credentials, my professional experience includes
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  twenty years of practice in the US military, working primarily
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  in a variety of technology related leadership positions. Number four.
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  I have authored approximately two hundred and fifty academic publications
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  focusing on the areas of web data, digital analytics, web analytics,
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  web searching, web search engines, social media analytics, and related areas.
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  Approximately two hundred of my publications address aspects of search analytics,
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  web analytics, online advertising, search engines, or web searching. My
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  recent research work focuses on online news analytics, which is
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  the investigation of the online qualitative and quantitative attributes of
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  news stories, along with other digital content. I am also
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  the editor in chief of the academic journal Information Processing
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  and Management, and I was previously the editor in chief
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  for five years of the academic journal Internet Research. I
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  have authored, co authored, or co edited for books including
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  Web Search Public Searching of the Web two thousand and seven,
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  Understanding User Web Interactions via Web Analytics two thousand and nine,
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  and Understanding Sponsored Search twenty eleven. A copy of my
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  complete curriculum, which includes a list of all publications I
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  have authored in the past ten years, is attached as
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  Appendix A number five. My fields of professional expertise include
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  web analytics, search engines, web searching, social media, online advertising,
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  and related areas. In the course of my academic career,
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  I have worked with a variety of search engines and
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  information searching applications in order to understand user searching behavior
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  on the Web and in other environments. For example, as
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  part of my master's degree program in computer science, I
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  designed and coded a text based search engine. For my
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  doctorate program in computer science, I developed a program interface
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  for web search engines and implement entered it on the
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  gigabyte Search engine. In subsequent research, I have worked with
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  Microsoft Internet Information Services and Verity Commercial Searching Services six
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  concerning user searching behaviors on the web using web analytics.
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  I have worked directly with real user searching data from
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  several search engines, including AOL, Alta, Vista, Dogpile, Excite, and
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  MSN Live. I've also analyzed web data of visitor traffic
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  and other attributes from a variety of websites and social
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  media platforms. I have analyzed real user data from online
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  search marketing campaigns and user referral traffic to websites. I
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  have conduct research and teaching concerning aspects of websites and
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  social media platforms, including keyword advertising. I've developed web analytics
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  models and processes for analysis of business goals, and I
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  have used web analytic data and commercial tools and both
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  my research and my teaching, I've also conducted other research
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  on users searching and related online behaviors. I have advised
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  governmental agencies and companies in consulting and expert witnessing matters.
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  A list of cases in which I have testified as
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  an expert witness in a deposition or trial in the
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  past four years is attached as the appendix be I
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  am being compensated for my work on this case at
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  the rate of three hundred dollars per hour. Number three
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  Assignment and materials considered Number seven. In providing my expert opinion,
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  I have been asked to respond to the following question
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  Number eight, what is the dissemination of the statements from
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  Miss Maxwell referring to Miss roberts declaration as untrue and
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  lies from when the statements were made on the second
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  of January twenty fifteen to the date that I filed
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  this report Number nine. For brevity, I refer to references
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  to the statement denoting Miss roberts declarations as untrue and lies.
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  Any related accounts referring to those original statements or similar
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  statements from Miss Maxwell or representatives referring to Miss Roberts
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  as the statements made against Miss Roberts, the statements from
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  Miss Maxwell's message, or the message from mister Gal Number ten.
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  My analysis is based on my experience, training, knowledge, and
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  education and is formed through the application of that experience, training, knowledge,
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  and education in the principles of web data collection, web analytics,
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  web search search engines, websites, web traffic analysis, and related
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  market analysis. Number eleven. The materials that I considered in
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  preparing this report are listed in Appendix see the Summary
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  of opinions twelve. Based on my research and analysis in
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  connection with this assignment, which is described in more detail
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  in the body of this report, along with my own experience, training, knowledge,
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  and education stated below, I have reached the following opinion
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  number thirteen. Statements made against Miss Roberts have been disseminated
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  to at least one hundred and fifteen online media or
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  other sites in one hundred and seventy eight separate stories
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  or articles with a combined sixty six million, nine hundred
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  and nine thousand, nine hundred and sixty five potential unique
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  visitors since January two, twenty fifteen, to the date that
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  I filed this report inclusive fourteen. This is a conservative estimate,
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  and it is more likely than not the statements made
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  by Miss Maxwell against Miss Roberts have received a wider
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  dissemination due to the factors such as a I used
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  a set of online websites to measure dissemination, and it's
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  reasonable that I have not located all references to the
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  statements made against Miss Roberts on every website by the
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  time of the submission of this report. B. I examined
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  only online sources referencing the statement made against Miss Roberts,
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  and not print or broadcast media dissemination of the statements
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  made against Miss Roberts. See. I have not attempted to
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  measure face to face dissemination of articles containing the statements
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  against Miss Roberts. D. I do not have access to
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  certain online sources where articles containing the statements against Miss
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  Roberts may have been disseminated. E. There are possibly sites
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  that have hosted the statements made against Miss Roberts that
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  I cannot locate, or where the statements have been removed.
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  F There are sites that hosted the articles containing the
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  statements made against Miss Roberts where the visitor data is
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  not accessible, or where I could not confirm the number
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  of visitors. G. I did not consider the dissemination via
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  social media platforms of articles containing the statements made against
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  Miss Roberts. H. Many sites published multiple articles on multiple
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  days that contained or referenced the statements made against Miss Roberts.
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  How However, I did not include these multiple publication dates
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  in calculating unique daily visitors. I. I did not include
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  unique daily visitors to articles that link from the article
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  till one or more of the articles containing the statements
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  made against Miss Roberts Jay. Finally, I did not include
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  the accounts of those who may have been searching and
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  seen the statements made against Miss Roberts in the search
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  results listing Part five. Background web analytics for traffic analysis fifteen.
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  In the course of forming this opinion, I implemented numerous web
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  analytics and related techniques commonly used in the industry. In
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  order to more clearly discuss these techniques, I define the
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  following terms. Direct traffic visitors to a website that come
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  from entering a website link into a browser location eg.
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  Not coming from a link or another website. Dissemination, the
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  act of spreading, or the circulation of information or articles
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  domain a specific Internet website that are administered as a
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  unit and defined by an Internet Protocol address. Reach the
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  percentage or number of people who visit a website out
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  of the total targeted population. Referral traffic visitors to a
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  site that come from websites other than search engines, repeat
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  visits visitor traffic to a website in a given period
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  that just includes multiple visits from the same set of
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  IP addresses IE IP addresses with more than one visit
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  provides account of the people who have visited a site
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  more than once in a given period. An individual is
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  usually defined by a combination of IP addresses and browser
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  within a given period, but can also be defined by
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  more sophisticated methods. Search engine a program and associated hardware
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  and processes that allows people to find information on the web,
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  typically via the submission of queries consisting of terms search
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  traffic visitors to a site that come from search engines
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  rather than from other websites, or via direct navigation search
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  a submission of a query to a search engine, usually
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  in the form of terms forming a query. Share sharing
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  of an article or a web page, typically via some
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  social media platform social media content that is shared via
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  social media networking websites. Unique visits visitor traffic to a
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  website within a given period that includes only the first
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  visit IE. Subsequent visits are ignored, which excludes repeat visits,
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  provides account of the individuals who have visited in a
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  site in a given period. Unique daily visitors visitor traffic
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  to a website who visits a site at least once
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  in a given twenty four hour period. Each visitor to
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  the site is counted once during the reporting period, which
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  means it exc gcludes repeat visits. Provides account of the
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  individuals who have visited a site on a given day.
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  Visits account of all the traffic to a website in
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  a given period, including both unique and repeat visits. Web
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  analytics the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of web data.
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  All right, folks, we're going to wrap up right there,
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  and in the next episode we're going to pick up
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  where we left off. All of the information that goes
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  with this episode can be found in the description box.