Datasets for research article "Dressed to Gamble: How Poker Drives the Dynamics of Wearables and Visits on Decentraland's Social Virtual World"

These files are datasets provided as supplemental material to our research article:Dressed to Gamble: How Poker Drives the Dynamics of Wearables and Visits on Decentraland's Social Virtual World. Journal of Metaverse 5.2 (2025) 145–155. https://doi.org/10.57019/jmv.1673676All of the files are in the parquet format, compressed with the maximum level available using zstd.Wearable TransfersThe following datasets contain the transfers (and related metadata) of Decentraland's avatar wearables made over a two-year period, from June 2021 to May 2023.transfers.parquet: Blockchain transfers of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) representing unique wearable tokens. Each wearable token is related to a single wearable item.items.parquet: An item is a representation of the characteristics of the wearable, such as a specific green t-shirt with a given style. A given item can be associated to one or many tokens, depending on its predefined rarity level. In turn, an item belongs to a collection.collections.parquet: A set of related wearable items. One collection can contain one or many items.sales.parquet: Transfers that are known to be part of a sale transaction on an NFT market.Number and duration of in-world visitsThe dataset parcel_sessions.parquet contains the location of individual Ethereum accounts (i.e., users) within the parcels in which Decentraland's virtual world is divided over a 10-month period, from August 2022 to May 2023. Please note that we segmented the respective sessions’ duration on a daily basis, adding 10 seconds to each to compensate for possible shortenings due to the 20-second polling rate of the original log events. That is to say, the minimum session duration in the dataset is of 10 seconds.