- Shanara Hawkins @ShanaraTech
- Emmanuel Presley @EmanPresley
- Shauntel Phillips @sphilli
The purpose of Project 3 was to collaborate as a group to implement two component competencies of Data Science: data visualizations and data engineering. On the data engineering side, we began by choosing a topic that would interest countless people worldwide: Gaming! Next, we combed through Kaggle for datasets that included enough gaming and location data to host an interactive map on our Dashboard Landing page. Given the limited number of open data sets that integrated both criteria, we were charged with locating and analyzing multiple datasets where at least one of the criteria was discussed in detail. Ultimately, we settled on two data sets, "List of Game Studios in Europe and CIS 2020" and "Popular Video Games 1980-2023." Finally, we cleaned and merged the two datasets, queried the data, built a full-stack web application, and created appropriate visualizations to tell an exciting yet compelling story about gaming around the world in a Canva Slide Deck Presentation.
Fun knows no borders! With that premise in mind, we wanted to take an in-depth look at a hobby that has brought people from various cultures together from around the world. Gaming can be viewed as one of the “great equalizers” of our society. It has the power to blend diverse narratives, characters, gameplay styles, and epic adventures--connecting people who otherwise may never have interacted with one another in their entire lifetime. Feel free to access our project Analytics Write-Up PDF to learn more about the Datasets, our ETL, Web App and Dashboard creation methods, Limitation, Bias, Future Work, and Works Cited. Game On!
- Python/Jupyter Notebook
- Matplotlib, Pandas Plotting
- SQLITE
- Flask API
- JSON
- JavaScript
- Plotly and/or Leaflet
- HTML
- JS/CSS
- Click on this link to be redirected to our landing page.
- Next, you'll find the following three titles that serve as additional links to other sections in our project: European Studios Dashboard, Leaderboard Visualizations, and About Us.
- European Studios Dashboard
- Here, you can use an interactive map of different gaming studios based in Europe, filtered by the available country whose gaming studios you find most interesting!
- Leaderboard Visualizations
- Here, you can view different data points regarding the popularity of video games! You can select to filter the data by genre, ratings, and plays.
- Meet the Players
- Here, you can meet and read more about our group project contributors
We want to extend a special shout-out to our professor and our outstanding TA for their invaluable support and guidance in tackling complex webpage coding and database integration and for assisting us with troubleshooting crucial functions for our Gaming Dashboard and web pages to work. Their unwavering commitment during our journey as Data Scientists has been nothing short of inspiring. Many thanks to you both!
- Southern Methodist University Data Science CAPE Instructional Staff
- Professor: Alexander Booth @ABoothInTheWild
- Assistant Teaching Professor: Sherhone Grant @SherhoneGrantDS