Synthetic data to reproduce the results of "Macroscopic properties of buyer-seller networks in online marketplaces"
The dataset contains two folders, one for the regulated marketplaces, one for the unregulated marketplaces.
In both cases, data concerning 3 markets are shared.
For unregulated marketplaces (i.e. Dark Web Marketplaces) each file contains a list of transactions as csv file with the following columns:
- sourceEntity: the entity sending the money
- destinationEntity: the entity receiving the money
- amount[USD]: the amount exchanged in USD
- time[seconds]: the timestamp of the transaction in seconds
In all markets, the market entity is represented as entity 1.
For the regulated marketplaces each market has 3 files:
- sample_market{}_trx: containing the timestamped transactions (i.e. buyer, vendor, timestamp in seconds)
- sample_market{}_moneyin: containing the total money received by vendors (vendor, amount in USD)
- sample_market{}_moneyout: containing the total money spent by buyers (buyer, amount in USD)
Note that in each file buyer and vendors are numbered starting from 1, so the buyer/vendors cannot be mapped across files.