I was ego surfing Giant Bomb on twitter a couple minutes ago and came across some cool graphs that Ben Medler, a Georgia-Tech PhD student, made with the site's user review data. Using our API services he's come up with summaries of everything from average scores of prolific writers to which games get reviewed the most, but scored the worst. Apparently the answer to that last question is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
I won't get preachy on my soapbox again but this is just another example of why it's important for community sites like ours to open up their data. Data shouldn't be locked in black-boxes only usable by a select few. You guys have just as many cool ideas for it as we do. It's nice to see it in action.
In any case, we love spot-lighting our users' work so if you're working on anything fun with our API please let us know by email if you need any help. Our engineering mastermind Andy is constantly updating it to include more and more filters, toggles, sorts and thingamabobs.
I was ego surfing Giant Bomb on twitter a couple minutes ago and came across some cool graphs that Ben Medler, a Georgia-Tech PhD student, made with the site's user review data. Using our API services he's come up with summaries of everything from average scores of prolific writers to which games get reviewed the most, but scored the worst. Apparently the answer to that last question is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
I won't get preachy on my soapbox again but this is just another example of why it's important for community sites like ours to open up their data. Data shouldn't be locked in black-boxes only usable by a select few. You guys have just as many cool ideas for it as we do. It's nice to see it in action.
In any case, we love spot-lighting our users' work so if you're working on anything fun with our API please let us know by email if you need any help. Our engineering mastermind Andy is constantly updating it to include more and more filters, toggles, sorts and thingamabobs.
Ass Creed Pissed me off more than any game I've veer played and because of that it is the worst game I have ever played. I have never got so frustrated or angry trying to play a game like I did with Ass Creed like how it would take you outta the simulation just to make you go to sleep....... why? All you did was take me out of playing the game to make mr walk over to a bed to go to sleep to only have to go back into the game.
Interesting. Maybe I'm missing a small sliver that can't be seen by the human eye, but it doesn't look like The Force Unleashed earned any 5-star reviews. And top reviewer zh666 uses the full review scale, with an average review score of 2.5. This is the kind of stuff I like to see. :)
@Milkman He was just curious to see what kind of information he could gleam from looking at broad statistics. The whole poit of information visualization is to look for trends/results/dynamics in the display of data.
Maybe some time I'll run the Giant Bomb data through the data analysis software on my work laptop... Seems interesting, but I'm not a fan of Ben's presentation of the data--though, am willing to cut him a lot of slack given that he admittedly just received his Tableau software, and didn't spend a ton of time with the blog entry. Quite honestly I'd rather just pull in some data directly into excel and see what I can do with it--that is, if it didn't feel exactly like what I do at work all day. In that sense, great job Ben. You're doing exactly what I'd like to do, but that I'll never actually get around to. Can't wait until you dive a bit deeper on that site stats.
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