Amazon Books Reviews from Goodreads, May 1996 to July 2014

May 1996 to July 2014 is the temporal coverage for this large crawl of Amazon product reviews, specifically for books. It contains 82.83 million ratings from 20.98 million users across 9.35 million items. The dataset was uploaded to Hugging Face by 'stuser2023' and originates from a project at UCSD.

Use Cases

• Train book recommendation models based on user ratings and review text.
• Analyze sentiment and opinion trends in book reviews over an 18-year period.
• Study user behavior and review patterns across millions of users and items.
• Benchmark large-scale text classification or regression models on review data.

Strengths

• 82.83 million ratings provide significant statistical power.
• Covers an 18-year time span from May 1996 to July 2014.
• Includes data from 20.98 million users and 9.35 million items.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2024-03-07 14:15:12; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

https://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/

Collection Method

Large crawl of product reviews from Amazon.

Time Range

May 1996 - July 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2024-03-07 14:15:12.

Geography

Likely global, but not explicitly stated.