The predictability of consumer visitation patterns

We consider hundreds of thousands of individual economic transactions to ask: how predictable are consumers in their merchant visitation patterns? Our results suggest that, in the long-run, much of our seemingly elective activity is actually highly predictable. Notwithstanding a wide range of indivi...

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Main Authors: Llorente, Alejandro (Author), Cebrian, Manuel (Author), Moro, Esteban (Author), Krumme, Katherine Ann (Contributor), Pentland, Alex Paul (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor), Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2014-07-08T18:54:16Z.
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