Yongzhen Wang , Xiaozhong Liu , Yingnan Ju , Katy Börner , Jun Lin , Changlong Sun , Luo Si
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Abstract
The days that precede Valentine's Day are characterized by extensive gift shopping activities all across the globe. In China, where much shopping takes place online, there has been an explosive growth in e-commerce sales during Valentine's Day over the recent years. This exploratory study investigates the extent to which each product category and each shopper group can exhibit romantic love within China's e-market throughout the 2 weeks leading up to 2019 Valentine's Day. Massive data from Alibaba, the biggest e-commerce retailer worldwide, are utilized to formulate an innovative romance index (RI) to quantitatively measure e-romantic values for products and shoppers. On this basis, millions of shoppers, along with their millions of products purchased around Valentine's Day, are analyzed as a case study to demonstrate their love consumption and romantic gift-giving. The results of the analysis are then illustrated to help understand Chinese e-romance based on the perspectives of different product categories and shopper groups. This empirical information visualization also contributes to improving the segmentation, targeting, and positioning of China's e-market for Valentine's Day.
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