live-dashboard-snapshot-on-trending-video-game-titles

About Top Video Game Dashboard

Video Game Dashboard is a team-created Flask-Pymongo-MongoDB web dashboard that provides various snapshots about the top 5 Steam video game titles. This dashboard reports on the following four metrics and sources:

- Surrounding stock performance (Y!Finance)
- Viewership (Twitch)
- Playerbase (SteamCharts)
- Search Relevance (Google Trends)

Data generation done via web scrapping and direct import into a mongoDB database, and a Flask web server app calls and graphs the data using Plotly/Leaflet. Our aim is to provide a limited overview of the performance of trending video games and the video game industry as a whole.

Along with the analysis, project also involved a written report and a Powerpoint presentation.

How to Use

User clones this Github repo.
User requires local installation of:
- MongoDB (optionally with mongosh or mongoCompass)
- Python (and related libraries)
User runs scrape_web_and_seed_data.py to scrape the relevant websites and clean its returned data.
User runs app.py to launch the Flask-generated webpage.
User can visit /data to get the raw .json data.
Otherwise, user can visit /dashboard to view the graphs.

Built with

Python
- Flask
- Pymongo
- Pandas
- Beautiful Soup
- Splinter
- Request
- yFinance
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Plotly
- Leaflet
NoSQL: mongoDB
- mongosh (mongo shell)
- mongoCompass
GitHub
- Github Pages
Google
- Google Docs
- Google Slides

Technical Skills

Python web scraping
Cleaning, sorting, filtering
Summary statistics, aggregating
Loading data into mongoDB
Querying in Python Flask
Rendering and dynamically creating webpage

Qualitative Skills

Synthesizing results for tentative conclusions
Acknowledging potential pitfalls with results and techniques