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Retro game revival 👾

Retro game revival 👾

In the mystical land of Arcadia, where pixels and bits weave the fabric of reality, the ancient and revered Valut of Classics has begun to fade into obscurity. This vault, a legendary archive that houses the most iconic video games from 1980 to 2020, is threatened to be lost forever. Without intervention, the stories and legacies of these timeless classics may be forgotten.

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Your challenge

  • Investigate and visualize the distribution of video game genres and teams behind them from 1980 to 2020.
  • Craft the ultimate bar chart race visual that crowns the top-selling video games of all time.

How to get started

Create your most insightful analysis using DataLab, our in-browser tool to write, run, and publish data analyses. Once you’ve finished your work, you’ll need to publish it for review.

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Start your analysis in R or Python
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Create an insightful analysis
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Publish your work for review
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Share your publication to get upvoted

Judging criteria

This is a community-based competition. Once the competition concludes, you'll have the opportunity to view and vote for the best submissions of others as the voting begins. The top 5 most upvoted entries will win. The winners will receive DataCamp merchandise.

Rules

  • Entries to the competition take the form of a workbook publication. Make sure the competition publication is publicly visible in order to be entered into the competition.
  • Your publication should be focused on data provided within the competition.
  • The competition is open and free to registered DataCamp users.
  • Only one entry per user. You may update your entry up to the deadline.
  • Make sure your competition workbook is published by the competition deadline in order for it to be valid.
  • You can check the time left to submit on the counter at the top of this page.

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