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Interesting write up. Where did the data come from? Does Amazon publish the raw data in the format that is loaded or was it scraped?

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From the article the data is available at: http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/

"I wrote a simple Python script to combine the per-category ratings-only data from the Amazon product reviews dataset curated by Julian McAuley, Rahul Pandey, and Jure Leskovec for their 2015 paper Inferring Networks of Substitutable and Complementary Products"

Ah thanks! Too many links back to back that I didn't see it there.

Anyone have a torrent?

On the page it says:

Amazon review data will be made available (for research purposes) on request

Just make a request. When I did so, I heard back within a few hours and the only requirement was that I cite their work, which is entirely reasonable. Similar datasets are more likely to be created if people are at least mentioned for their efforts.

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