Glossary
review and rating fields
review and rating fields is aggregated customer feedback carried on the item record itself — an average rating plus a review count. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, Best Buy Developer API - Products, Stores & Categories: and Newegg.com - Electronics Retail Product Catalog (Scrapeable): per-item are working examples.
What is review and rating fields?
Aggregated customer feedback carried on the item record itself — an average rating plus a review count.
Both retail catalogs in this slice ship these values per SKU rather than as a standalone reviews dataset.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - Best Buy Developer API - Products, Stores & Categories:. - Newegg.com - Electronics Retail Product Catalog (Scrapeable): per-item — "rating and review count".
Why does review and rating fields matter when choosing a dataset?
A table is only as good as the column you actually need; if rating fields are absent or defined inconsistently across rows, no surrounding richness rescues the analysis.
The failure mode is concrete: the listing promises one thing, the delivered files tell another, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing costs most.
82.4% of the 1,744 cataloged datasets are free to access, and Best Buy Developer API - Products, Stores & Categories: lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate review and rating fields in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open Best Buy Developer API - Products, Stores & Categories: and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
- Open Newegg.com - Electronics Retail Product Catalog (Scrapeable): per-item and confirm its record — "rating and review count" — against the files you actually receive.
- Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
- Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
- Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.
See the term applied to real records: computer-electronics-retail data, consumer-electronics data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - embedded JSON payload - SKU product record
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of review and rating fields?
Best Buy Developer API - Products, Stores & Categories: is the clearest example in this catalog. Its listing is the reference point for this pattern. Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "review and rating fields" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides review and rating fields?
Open Best Buy Developer API - Products, Stores & Categories: next to Newegg.com - Electronics Retail Product Catalog (Scrapeable): per-item and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing review and rating fields
6 datasets carry review and rating fields in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
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US Census Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS/MARTS) - Electronics & Appliance Stores
Bankrate Mortgage and Financial Product Rates
Consumer Reports Ratings Hub
Data.gov Electronics Tagged Datasets
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