About the Data set!
This data set shows video games and how they are rated by the critics. This data set contains over 100,000 listings of video games. For each video game listed, we get a sense of how the reviews were, what platform its on, year of release, genre, publisher, developer, rating, sales, and user score. Throughout the data, we get a good sense of what the good games are and which ones didn’t do too well.
What are the ranges for the Critic Scores for video games?
The graph seems to show that a majority of the Critics Scores of video games falls between 65 through 85. There was not a video game that reached a perfect score through Critics, as we may guess
What video game genre produces the most sales?
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## [1] "labels"Based on the Bar Chart, the top genre that produced the most sales are misc games. The top #2 and #3 are very close and they are platform ##and shooter games. The 4th most sales comes from sports games and following at #5 is racing games
Is there an increase in critic scores as the number of critics increase?
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As shown on the graph, the higher the critic score, the more amount of critics there are. I was expecting this to be the opposite. I thought if the critic scores were lower, then there would be more critics scoring the game
What mature rating has the highest amount of sales?
The top 3 mature ratings for the video games are AO, K-A and M. After mature, E for everyone is the next highest in terms of sales.
###Let’s see what Game Genres have the highest critic scores and total scores
After a quick look at the graphs, it seems to be that sports and action have higher critic scores. Action and shooter games get the most amount of critics as well