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Video Games Sales

<p>This dataset contains a list of video games with sales greater than 100,000 copies. It was generated by a scrape of <a href="http://www.vgchartz.com/">vgchartz.com</a>.</p> <p>Fields include</p> <ul> <li> <p>Rank - Ranking of overall sales</p> </li> <li> <p>Name - The games name</p> </li> <li> <p>Platform - Platform of the games release (i.e. PC,PS4, etc.)</p> </li> <li> <p>Year - Year of the game&#39;s release</p> </li> <li> <p>Genre - Genre of the game</p> </li> <li> <p>Publisher - Publisher of the game</p> </li> <li> <p>NA_Sales - Sales in North America (in millions)</p> </li> <li> <p>EU_Sales - Sales in Europe (in millions)</p> </li> <li> <p>JP_Sales - Sales in Japan (in millions)</p> </li> <li> <p>Other_Sales - Sales in the rest of the world (in millions)</p> </li> <li> <p>Global_Sales - Total worldwide sales.</p> </li> </ul> <p>The script to scrape the data is available at <a href="https://github.com/GregorUT/vgchartzScrape">https://github.com/GregorUT/vgchartzScrape</a>.<br> It is based on BeautifulSoup using Python.<br> There are 16,598 records. 2 records were dropped due to incomplete information.</p>

ShareScore

40/100

Overall dataset sharing score

Score breakdown

These five areas show where the dataset supports — or may limit — practical reuse.

Stewardship
8
Harmonization
4
Access
20
Reuse readiness
8
Engagement
0

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