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.
Fun Stats Of Community Reviews On GB
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.
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. :)
Just looking at it, it looks like MGS4, Braid, and Super Mario Galaxy are the best reviewed games on the site.
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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