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cs.CY2025
Measuring risks inherent to our digital economies using Amazon purchase histories from US consumers
Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Sandy Pentland +1
What do pickles and trampolines have in common? In this paper we show that while purchases for these products may seem innocuous, they risk revealing clues about customers' persona…
cs.CY2025
Evaluating Amazon Effects and the Limited Impact of COVID-19 With Purchases Crowdsourced from US Consumers
Alex Berke, Dana Calacci, Alex +2
We leverage a recently published dataset of Amazon purchase histories, crowdsourced from thousands of US consumers, to study how online purchasing behaviors have changed over time,…
cs.CY2024
Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use
Alex Berke, Robert Mahari, Sandy Pentland +2
Data generated by users on digital platforms are a crucial resource for advocates and researchers interested in uncovering digital inequities, auditing algorithms, and understandin…