Akinator is a video game developed by French company Elokence. During gameplay, it attempts to determine what fictional or real-life character the player is thinking of by asking a series of questions (like the game Twenty Questions). Akinator's goal is to guess a real or fictional characters. To guess the character the player is thinking, Akinator asks a series of questions and the player can answer with 'Yes',' Don't know', 'No', 'Probably 'and 'Probably' not , then the program determines the best question.
Akinator uses a proprietary algorithm which is not available to the public and also has a larger database of characters than this project currently has. The purpose of this project is to try and break down how Akinator's guessing algorithm works and recreate the same for educational purposes
The data comes from FiveThirtyEight Comic Characters Dataset. The data is split into two files, for DC and Marvel, respectively: dc-wikia-data.csv and marvel-wikia-data.csv. Each file has the following variables:
| Variable | Definition |
|---|---|
page_id |
The unique identifier for that characters page within the wikia |
name |
The name of the character |
urlslug |
The unique url within the wikia that takes you to the character |
ID |
The identity status of the character (Secret Identity, Public identity, [on marvel only: No Dual Identity]) |
ALIGN |
If the character is Good, Bad or Neutral |
EYE |
Eye color of the character |
HAIR |
Hair color of the character |
SEX |
Sex of the character (e.g. Male, Female, etc.) |
GSM |
If the character is a gender or sexual minority (e.g. Homosexual characters, bisexual characters) |
ALIVE |
If the character is alive or deceased |
APPEARANCES |
The number of appareances of the character in comic books (as of Sep. 2, 2014. Number will become increasingly out of date as time goes on.) |
FIRST APPEARANCE |
The month and year of the character's first appearance in a comic book, if available |
YEAR |
The year of the character's first appearance in a comic book, if available |
We will be combining the two to give our Akinator clone and additional layer of challenge.