Via an interdisciplinary collaboration between UNLV's International Gaming Institute, department of computer science, department of psychology, and William F. Harrah College of Hospitality, Kasra Ghaharian published "Payments transaction data from online casino players and online sports bettors" in Data in Brief with co-authors Piyush Puranik, Brett Abarbanel, Kazem Taghva, Shane W. Kraus, Ashok Singh, Alan Feldman, and Bo Bernhard.

The paper describes a dataset that was made available via an academic and industry collaboration to explore and analyze payments modernization in the gambling industry: the Payments Research Collaborative. A subset of the dataset is made publicly available with the article. The authors hope this will encourage further investigations and help promote the importance of transparency in research.