Amazon Co-purchasing Network
A Amazon (co-purchasing network) dataset of 334,863 nodes and 925,872 edges, collected by Yang & Leskovec from Amazon website (2012). Each record contains product-product co-purchasing edges and product-category communities. The dataset is notable for its product co-purchasing network with ground-truth communities from categories. Intended for research into community detection, recommendation systems, and product relationship analysis.
Cite this dataset at
com-amazon.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 334,863 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
com-amazon- Authors
- Yang, J.; Leskovec, J.
- Year
- 2012
- Source paper
- Defining and Evaluating Network Communities based on Ground-truth
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1109/ICDM.2012.138
- License
- SNAP (Stanford Network Analysis Project) — Academic use (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 334,863
- Nodes
- 334,863
- Edges
- 925,872
- Nodes are
- product
- Edges are
- co-purchase
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2012 (2010s)
- Tasks
- Recommendation (ranking) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection - Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://snap.stanford.edu/data/com-Amazon.html link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 4.4 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@inproceedings{yang2012defining,
title = {Defining and Evaluating Network Communities based on Ground-truth},
author = {Yang, J. and Leskovec, J.},
booktitle = {ICDM},
year = {2012}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Yang, J., & Leskovec, J. (2012). Amazon Co-purchasing Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2012.138
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Yang, J., and J. Leskovec. Amazon Co-purchasing Network. 2012, doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2012.138.