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-date = 2020-07-20
-title = "Data Exploration: Video Games Sales"
-description = ""
-draft = false
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-
-# Background Information
-
-This dataset (obtained from
-[Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/gregorut/videogamesales/data)) contains a list
-of video games with sales greater than 100,000 copies. It was generated by a
-scrape of vgchartz.com.
-
-Fields include:
-
--   Rank: Ranking of overall sales
--   Name: The game name
--   Platform: Platform of the game release (i.e. PC,PS4, etc.)
--   Year: Year of the game's release
--   Genre: Genre of the game
--   Publisher: Publisher of the game
--   NA~Sales~: Sales in North America (in millions)
--   EU~Sales~: Sales in Europe (in millions)
--   JP~Sales~: Sales in Japan (in millions)
--   Other~Sales~: Sales in the rest of the world (in millions)
--   Global~Sales~: Total worldwide sales.
-
-There are 16,598 records. 2 records were dropped due to incomplete information.
-
-# Import the Data
-
-```python
-# Import the Python libraries we will be using
-import pandas as pd
-import numpy as np
-import seaborn as sns; sns.set()
-import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
-
-# Load the file using the path to the downloaded file
-file = r'video_game_sales.csv'
-df = pd.read_csv(file)
-df
-```
-
-# Explore the Data
-
-```python
-# With the description function, we can see the basic stats. For example, we can
-# also see that the 'Year' column has some incomplete values.
-df.describe()
-```
-
-```python
-# This function shows the rows and columns of NaN values. For example, df[179,3] = nan
-np.where(pd.isnull(df))
-
-(array([179, ..., 16553], dtype=int64),
- array([3, ..., 5], dtype=int64))
-```
-
-# Visualize the Data
-
-```python
-# This function plots the global sales by platform
-sns.catplot(x='Platform', y='Global_Sales', data=df, jitter=False).set_xticklabels(rotation=90)
-```
-
-```python
-# This function plots the global sales by genre
-sns.catplot(x='Genre', y='Global_Sales', data=df, jitter=False).set_xticklabels(rotation=45)
-```
-
-```python
-# This function plots the global sales by year
-sns.lmplot(x='Year', y='Global_Sales', data=df).set_xticklabels(rotation=45)
-```
-
-```python
-# This function plots four different lines to show sales from different regions.
-# The global sales plot line is commented-out, but can be included for comparison
-df2 = df.groupby('Year').sum()
-years = range(1980,2019)
-
-a = df2['NA_Sales']
-b = df2['EU_Sales']
-c = df2['JP_Sales']
-d = df2['Other_Sales']
-# e = df2['Global_Sales']
-
-fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12,12))
-ax.set_ylabel('Region Sales (in Millions)')
-ax.set_xlabel('Year')
-
-ax.plot(years, a, label='NA_Sales')
-ax.plot(years, b, label='EU_Sales')
-ax.plot(years, c, label='JP_Sales')
-ax.plot(years, d, label='Other_Sales')
-# ax.plot(years, e, label='Global_Sales')
-
-ax.legend()
-plt.show()
-```
-
-## Investigate Outliers
-
-```python
-# Find the game with the highest sales in North America
-df.loc[df['NA_Sales'].idxmax()]
-
-Rank                     1
-Name            Wii Sports
-Platform               Wii
-Year                  2006
-Genre               Sports
-Publisher         Nintendo
-NA_Sales             41.49
-EU_Sales             29.02
-JP_Sales              3.77
-Other_Sales           8.46
-Global_Sales         82.74
-Name: 0, dtype: object
-
-# Explore statistics in the year 2006 (highest selling year)
-df3 = df[(df['Year'] == 2006)]
-df3.describe()
-```
-
-```python
-# Plot the results of the previous dataframe (games from 2006) - we can see the year's results were largely carried by Wii Sports
-sns.catplot(x="Genre", y="Global_Sales", data=df3, jitter=False).set_xticklabels(rotation=45)
-```
-
-```python
-# We can see 4 outliers in the graph above, so let's get the top 5 games from that dataframe
-# The results below show that Nintendo had all top 5 games (3 on the Wii and 2 on the DS)
-df3.sort_values(by=['Global_Sales'], ascending=False).head(5)
-```
-
-# Discussion
-
-The purpose of exploring datasets is to ask questions, answer questions, and
-discover intelligence that can be used to inform decision-making. So, what have
-we found in this dataset?
-
-Today we simply explored a publicly-available dataset to see what kind of
-information it contained. During that exploration, we found that video game
-sales peaked in 2006. That peak was largely due to Nintendo, who sold the top 5
-games in 2006 and has a number of games in the top-10 list for the years
-1980-2020. Additionally, the top four platforms by global sales (Wii, NES, GB,
-DS) are owned by Nintendo.
-
-We didn't explore everything this dataset has to offer, but we can tell from a
-brief analysis that Nintendo seems to rule sales in the video gaming world.
-Further analysis could provide insight into which genres, regions, publishers,
-or world events are correlated with sales.