Amelia Tang, Alex Yinan Guo, Yike Shi, and Mahmoodur Rahman
Dashboard link https://video-game-dashboard-r.herokuapp.com/
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.
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.
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 want to see from 5 to 9. The user can view each year's user score by adjusting the year on the sidebar.
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.
After cloning this repository run the following commands to install the dependencies, and run the app:
# Install R packages at the project root
R -f init.R
# Run the Dashboard
R -f app.R
If you have some ideas regarding this project and wish to help, please review our contributing guidelines.
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
Video Game Sales Analytics Dashboard dashboard is licensed under the
terms of the MIT license.