Video Game Sales Analytics Dashboard

Amelia Tang, Alex Yinan Guo, Yike Shi, and Mahmoodur Rahman
Dashboard link: https://video-game-dashboard.herokuapp.com/

Background

Our dashboard visualizes North American and global sales and sales-related data, such as top publishers and top genres based on sales and market share based on sales by year. More in details in our proposal.

Table of Content

• What are we doing?
• Dashboard description
• Future development
• License

What are we doing?

Electronic video games in 2020 generated a revenue of around $165 billion. To thrive in this competitive industry, video game companies have sales analysts who need to keep their eyes on stats relating to sales. We built this simple dashboard to provide visual aids for the sales analysts and to save their time on data wrangling for regional and yearly data.

Dashboard Description

Figure 1. Overview of the dashboard

The dashboard contains a landing page that by default shows the North America sales line plot for PlayStation4, top publishers in the most recent years available in the data set, top genres for the most recent available year, a chart shows market share of the major players in the industry in the most recent available year and an average critic score of games on different platform in the most recent available year in the data set. On the top of the page, a user can use the tabs to navigate between the North America and global sales to show sales trends in North America and the sales trend globally (under the Global tab). Moreover, a user can use the year slider under the sales line plot to choose the range of years of sales he/she would like to view from 2013. From the filter on the side bar, a user can choose to show sales of different companies, PS4 and/or Xbox. In addition, a user can also use the drop down menus on the side bar to choose the year of top publishers, top genres, market share and average critic score he/she would like to view. At the bottom of the Top Genre and Top Publisher charts, a user can choose how many top genres or publishers he/she wants to see from 5 to 9. The user can view each year's user score by adjusting the year on the sidebar.

Future development

We are calling for developers to help us improve the existing features and implement new ones. For those who are interested in develop the video game sales analytics dashboard, you can follow the steps to run the app locally.

Installation

Clone the repository using git clone Install virtual environment using venv:

# Create an venv virual environment 
python -m venv videogame 

# Activate the environment 
source videogame/bin/activate 

# Install the requirements 
pip install -r requirements.txt

or if you would like to create the environment locally, at the project root:

conda env create -f videogame.yaml
conda activate videogame

Run the app locally

Via the command line:

python src/app.py

or via Docker Compose:

To run this app using Docker write the following commands after cloning the repo:

cd video_game_sales_dashboard
docker-compose up

Finally, open the app in the following URL http://0.0.0.0:8050

Contribution Guidelines

If you have some ideas regarding this project and wish to help, please review our contributing guidelines.

Suggestions

All suggestions for improvements are welcomed! We would particularly appreciate developments in the following areas:
- Real-time tracking of the sales data using the companies’ quarterly or annual financial statements published online
- North America regional sales analysis such as heap maps to indicate the amount of sales in different U.S. States and Canadian provinces
- A plot associate Critic scores with sales to examine the relationship between the two

License

Video Game Sales Analytics dashboard is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.