The EconoMining Project
The comment about “lightning fast delivery” can enhance a seller’s reputation and thus allow the seller to increase the price of the listed items by a few cents, without losing any sales.
Prof. Panos delivered an amazing presentation at NYTM last night about correlating phrases in product reviews to prices/purchases to explain differences in market prices for identical products. I’m trying to find slides so I can dig into this more. In the mean time, check out the EconoMining page at NYU: http://bit.ly/15GKYE
