Exploring Boardgames Part Two: Exploratory Data Analysis

In this post, I describe exploratory data analysis on the data set of 100,000 boardgames obtained in part one. I investigate the “geek rating” of a boardgame, which I use to narrow the scope of the analysis. Then, I give an overview of general characteristics of this boardgame dataset, and answer the question “Are we in a golden age of boardgames?” by looking at how boardgame ratings have changed over time.

February 23, 2023 · 15 min · 3078 words · Andrew Wong
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Exploring Boardgames Part One: Data Download and ETL

What is the golden age of board games? In this blog post, I describe code to fetch and clean data about 100,000 board games via the BoardGameGeek.com XML API, in preparation for analysis in part two.

October 15, 2022 · 24 min · 4993 words · Andrew Wong