Line Interaction Fork of History of Video Games by Genre
A dropdown menu selects a sales region, and a steamgraph displays total video game sales per year, stacked by genre around a central axis. The chart uses Observable Plot’s `areaY` and `stackY` marks with `binX` to aggregate the data, which comes from the Video Game Sales Dataset. Redrawing the plot on region change removes the previous graph, showing how annual sales distribution shifts across global, North American, European, Japanese, and other markets. The code loads CSV data with `d3.csv` and `autoType`.
AI-generated descriptionCount of video games released by genre over time.
An exploration of the Video Game Sales Dataset prepared by Daniel Ribaudo, originally visualized in Interaction Fork of History of Video Games by Genre.
This is an extension of the forked Viz which includes 1 notable change:
- Rather than small multiples, there is a steamgraph (centered area chart).
Comments:
This was done mostly as an exploratory modification to the existing visualization. It is much harder to answer questions such as:
- Which regions prefer which genre the most?
- Which genres have been more or less popular with the passing of time?
It is easier to answer:
- How do annual video game sales vary per year in each country?
TODO:
- To my knowledge, the plot functionality does not automatically come with a key/legend. This needs to be implemented to make sense of the colors.
- I must investigate the wierd effect occuring at the beginning of the graph.
Uses Observable Plot with vanilla HTML.