VideoGame Sales Statistical Analysis

-- Project Status: [Completed]

Project Description

The following statistical analysis is to determine how video game sales performed over the past decades. To understand video game sales, I had to use data visualizations and sampling methods:

• Visualize the distrubtion of game sales by year.
• Visualize game sales vs platform (gaming console)
• Determine if there is correlation between regional sales
• Figure out average critic's scores using various sampling methods
• Determine what are commonly used words in popular video game titles

Methods Used

• Correlation Analysis
• Central Limit Theorem (CLT)
• Simple Random Sampling
• Systematic Sampling
• Stratified Sampling
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Technologies

• R Markdown

Resources:

• https://www.kaggle.com/gregorut/videogamesales (dataset)

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1046878120945735 (study on Poland (EU) vs US gaming preferences)

• https://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/how-has-technology-changed-the-gaming-industry/ (3D gaming aspect)

• https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/gaming-the-ps2-was-the-best-video-games-console-of-all-timefact-20170303 (PS2)