Waka

An exploration of the best-selling videogames in history

About the project

Waka is a data visualization project developed during the Ironhack Data Analysis bootcamp.

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Prerequisites

Install the needed libraries for the project:

pip3 install pandas
pip3 install matplotlib
pip3 install numpy

Source

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)

Files structure

• main.ipynb: Jupyter file with the project

Folders:

• data: input files
• libraries: custom Python libraries
• images
• output: exportable images of charts

Dataset info

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

Acknowledgments

• Alberto and Octavio, who will love this readme
• Rimbaud, my cat, who loves me just because I feed him