# Amazon Reviews 2023 User Pool Stats
Exploration run over application-relevant categories from the 2018-2023 window.
Categories
Books: 10,606,530 kept reviewsKindle_Store: 11,510,161 kept reviewsMovies_and_TV: 4,435,640 kept reviewsElectronics: 26,479,442 kept reviewsOffice_Products: 8,808,413 kept reviewsHome_and_Kitchen: 49,642,221 kept reviewsClothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry: 48,476,985 kept reviews
Review Volume
The full Amazon Reviews 2023 dataset contains 571.54M reviews across all categories. The selected categories account for about 262.5M full-dataset reviews, or 45.9% of all reviews. In this run, the 2018-2023 window kept 159,959,392 reviews from the selected categories, or 28.0% of the full dataset.
| Category | Full dataset reviews | % of all reviews | Kept 2018-2023 reviews | Kept % of all reviews |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Books | 29.5M | 5.16% | 10,606,530 | 1.86% |
| Kindle_Store | 25.6M | 4.48% | 11,510,161 | 2.01% |
| Movies_and_TV | 17.3M | 3.03% | 4,435,640 | 0.78% |
| Electronics | 43.9M | 7.68% | 26,479,442 | 4.63% |
| Office_Products | 12.8M | 2.24% | 8,808,413 | 1.54% |
| Home_and_Kitchen | 67.4M | 11.79% | 49,642,221 | 8.69% |
| Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry | 66.0M | 11.55% | 48,476,985 | 8.48% |
| Total selected | 262.5M | 45.93% | 159,959,392 | 27.99% |
2018-2023 Volume Ranking
| Rank | Category | Kept 2018-2023 reviews |
| ---: | --- | ---: |
| 1 | Home_and_Kitchen | 49,642,221 |
| 2 | Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry | 48,476,985 |
| 3 | Electronics | 26,479,442 |
| 4 | Kindle_Store | 11,510,161 |
| 5 | Books | 10,606,530 |
| 6 | Office_Products | 8,808,413 |
| 7 | Movies_and_TV | 4,435,640 |
Published Full-Dataset Category Ranking
This ranking uses the published Amazon Reviews 2023 category-level #Rating
counts over the full May 1996-Sep 2023 dataset. It is not restricted to the
2018-2023 window.
| Rank | Category | Full dataset reviews |
| ---: | --- | ---: |
| 1 | Home_and_Kitchen | 67.4M |
| 2 | Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry | 66.0M |
| 3 | Unknown | 63.8M |
| 4 | Electronics | 43.9M |
| 5 | Books | 29.5M |
| 6 | Tools_and_Home_Improvement | 27.0M |
| 7 | Health_and_Household | 25.6M |
| 8 | Kindle_Store | 25.6M |
| 9 | Beauty_and_Personal_Care | 23.9M |
| 10 | Cell_Phones_and_Accessories | 20.8M |
| 11 | Automotive | 20.0M |
| 12 | Sports_and_Outdoors | 19.6M |
| 13 | Movies_and_TV | 17.3M |
| 14 | Pet_Supplies | 16.8M |
| 15 | Patio_Lawn_and_Garden | 16.5M |
| 16 | Toys_and_Games | 16.3M |
| 17 | Grocery_and_Gourmet_Food | 14.3M |
| 18 | Office_Products | 12.8M |
| 19 | Arts_Crafts_and_Sewing | 9.0M |
| 20 | Baby_Products | 6.0M |
| 21 | Industrial_and_Scientific | 5.2M |
| 22 | Software | 4.9M |
| 23 | CDs_and_Vinyl | 4.8M |
| 24 | Video_Games | 4.6M |
| 25 | Musical_Instruments | 3.0M |
| 26 | Amazon_Fashion | 2.5M |
| 27 | Appliances | 2.1M |
| 28 | All_Beauty | 701.5K |
| 29 | Handmade_Products | 664.2K |
| 30 | Health_and_Personal_Care | 494.1K |
| 31 | Gift_Cards | 152.4K |
| 32 | Digital_Music | 130.4K |
| 33 | Magazine_Subscriptions | 71.5K |
| 34 | Subscription_Boxes | 16.2K |
Pool Summary
The user pools below are computed from the following categories only:
Books, Kindle_Store, Movies_and_TV, Electronics, Office_Products,
Home_and_Kitchen, and Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry.
The pool construction uses reviews in the 2018-2023 window only. Reviews outside this window are excluded from review counts, category counts, history span, review text character counts, and verified-purchase share. Average rating is reported in candidate records but is not used for pool selection.
| Pool | Definition | Users | | --- | --- | ---: | | Standard pool | >=30 reviews; >=2 categories; >=365 days history; >=5000 review text characters; verified_purchase_share >=0.7 | 247,891 | | Stricter pool | >=50 reviews; >=2 categories; >=365 days history; >=10000 review text characters; verified_purchase_share >=0.7 | 64,855 | | Stricter pool, 2-year verified>=0.8 | >=50 reviews; >=2 categories; >=730 days history; >=10000 review text characters; verified_purchase_share >=0.8 | 57,765 | | Stricter pool, cat>=3 reference | >=50 reviews; >=3 categories; >=730 days history; >=10000 review text characters; verified_purchase_share >=0.8 | 55,032 |
Generated Output Files
These generated artifacts are intentionally kept under ignored raw/ paths and
are not committed to the repository.
- Standard pool:
raw/amazon_reviews_2023/exploration/application_large_2018_2023_min30_1y_5k_verified70/candidate_users.jsonl - Stricter pool:
raw/amazon_reviews_2023/exploration/application_large_2018_2023_min30_1y_5k_verified70/candidate_users_intermediate_min50_cat2_1y_10k_verified70.jsonl - Stricter pool, 2-year verified>=0.8:
raw/amazon_reviews_2023/exploration/application_large_2018_2023_min30_1y_5k_verified70/candidate_users_strict_min50_cat2_2y_10k_verified80.jsonl - Stricter cat>=3 reference:
raw/amazon_reviews_2023/exploration/application_large_2018_2023_min30_1y_5k_verified70/candidate_users_strict_min50_cat3_2y_10k_verified80.jsonl - Run summary:
raw/amazon_reviews_2023/exploration/application_large_2018_2023_min30_1y_5k_verified70/summary.json