An exploration of the best-selling videogames in history
Waka is a data visualization project developed during the Ironhack Data Analysis bootcamp.
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Install the needed libraries for the project:
pip3 install pandas
pip3 install matplotlib
pip3 install numpy
The project uses data provided by vgchartz.com, which was scraped by Abdulshaheed Alqunber. Dataset is available on Kaggle.
- VGChartz - Original source
- Video Games Sales 2019 - Scraped dataset (version April 12th, 2019)
- main.ipynb: Jupyter file with the project
Folders:
- data: input files
- libraries: custom Python libraries
- images
- output: exportable images of charts
Fields include:
- Rank - Ranking of overall sales
- Name - Name of the game
- Platform - Platform of the game (i.e. PC, PS4, XOne, etc.)
- Genre - Genre of the game
- ESRB Rating - ESRB Rating of the game
- Publisher - Publisher of the game
- Developer - Developer of the game
- Critic Score - Critic score of the game from 10
- User Score - Users score the game from 10
- Total Shipped - Total shipped copies of the game
- Global_Sales - Total worldwide sales (in millions)
- NA_Sales - Sales in North America (in millions)
- PAL_Sales - Sales in Europe (in millions)
- JP_Sales - Sales in Japan (in millions)
- Other_Sales - Sales in the rest of the world (in millions)
- Year - Year of release of the game
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