Visualizations for #TidyTuesday datasets

My TidyTuesday kludges

Code for the visualizations
30 July 2019

Exploring the Video games dataset

by Jesus M. Castagnetto

Source code

The data comes from #TidyTuesday Video games dataset, and I decided to go “old school” and used the txtplot R package.

First, let’s graph the number of games released per year

Number of games per year

Next, we can plot their Metascore distribution by price range:

Metascore by price range

Finally, we will plot the price distribution, to find the pricing “sweet spots”:

Pricing sweet spots

As an added bonus, here is an animation of how game ownership has changed over the years, classified by price range:

Change in game ownership over the years


Categories: tidytuesday - R