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A brief look at Video Game Sales Worldwide
Video Games Sales Data
This dataset (source) contains records of popular videogames in North America, Japan, Europe and other parts of the world. Every video game in this dataset has at least 100,000 global sales. For every videogame, it contains the name of the videogame, the platform and year it was published, the genre, the publisher and some data about sales in different parts of the world. You can try multiple data science concepts on this dataset; some examples are given at the end.
Load packages
library(tidyverse)Load your Data
data <- readr::read_csv('data/vgsales.csv.gz')View Data
head(data)Data Dictionary
vgsales.csv
| variable | class | description |
|---|---|---|
| Rank | numeric | The rank of the video game, determined by global sales |
| Name | character | The name of the video game |
| Platform | character | The platform the video game was published on |
| Year | character | The year the video game was published |
| Genre | character | The genre of the video game |
| Publisher | character | The publisher of the video game |
| NA_Sales | numeric | The number of sales of the video game in North America |
| EU_Sales | numeric | The number of sales of the video game in Europe |
| JP_Sales | numeric | The number of sales of the video game in Japan |
| Other_Sales | numeric | The number of sales of the video game in other parts of the world |
| Global_Sales | numeric | The total number of sales of the video game |
Answer interesting questions
Now you get to explore this exciting dataset! Can't think of where to start? Try your hand at these questions:
- Games on what platform are the most popular?
- What genre of games is the least popular in North America?
- Are games that are popular in Japan also popular in Europe?
- Plot the number sales of every publisher in function of time.