Published 2016 | Version v2
Open dataset Open

Amazon question/answer data

Creators

  • 1. University of California, San Diego

Description

Description

This dataset contains Question and Answer data from Amazon, totaling around 1.4 million answered questions and around 4 million answers. This dataset can be combined with Amazon product review data (available here) by matching ASINs in the Q/A dataset with ASINs in the review data.

Files

qa_Beauty.json__100lines.txt

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Variables

Name Description
asin ID of the product, e.g. B000050B6Z
questionType type of question. Could be 'yes/no' or 'open-ended'
answerType type of answer. Could be 'Y', 'N', or '?' (if the polarity of the answer could not be predicted). Only present for yes/no questions.
answerTime raw answer timestamp
unixTime answer timestamp converted to unix time
question question text
answer answer text

Details

Resource type Open dataset
Title Amazon question/answer data
Creators
  • McAuley, Julian1
  • Yang, Alex1
    • Research Fields Business Administration Economics Psychology Sociology Political Science Economic & Social History Communication Sciences Educational Research Other
    Size 766.0 kB
    License(s) Cite paper if used
    External Resource https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~jmcauley/datasets.html#amazon_qa
    Companies Amazon