Sequences of purchases in credit card data reveal lifestyles in urban populations

Riccardo Di Clemente; Miguel Luengo-Oroz; Matias Travizano; Sharon Xu; Bapu Vaitla; Marta C. González

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05690-8

Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Sequences of purchases in credit card data reveal lifestyles in urban populations

Riccardo Di Clemente,
Miguel Luengo-Oroz,
Matias Travizano,
Sharon Xu,
Bapu Vaitla,
Marta C. González

Affiliations

Riccardo Di Clemente: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miguel Luengo-Oroz: United Nations Global Pulse
Matias Travizano: GranData
Sharon Xu: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bapu Vaitla: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University
Marta C. González: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05690-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Digital traces of our lives have the potential to allow insights into collective behaviors. Here, the authors cluster consumers by their credit card purchase sequences and discover five distinct groups, within which individuals also share similar mobility and demographic attributes.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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