Have you ever wondered what the most popular video games are?
This week, we explored that question by creating two pie charts using Wikipedia data about:
- Number of players for specific games (first pie chart)
- Video game sales (second pie chart)
Data source: Wikipedia: List of most-played games by player count
Data source: Wikipedia: List of best-selling video games
Reflect on what you see
Look and interact with the data visualizations above. When you mouse-over the pie charts, you'll notice more information appears.
Think about the following questions:
- What do you notice about the pie charts?
- What do you wonder about the data?
Use the fill-in-the-blank prompts to summarize your thoughts:
- "I used to think_______"
- "Now I think_______"
- "I wish I knew more about_______"
- "These data visualizations remind me of_______"
Share your reflections
Below are some ways to share your thoughts about the data visualizations. If you want to publish your reflections online, make sure you check in with your teacher or guardian. You can also look at tips for writing reflections.
- Journaling (Google Docs is one of many tools to explore)
- Blogging (there are many free blogging tools)
- Creating videos (here's a guide on creating YouTube videos)
- Drawing (one tool you could look at is Sketch Noting)
Learn how we visualized the data
Go to our walk-through (in Jupyter notebook format) to see how we used the data science process (formulating a question, gathering the data, analyzing the data with code, and creating the visualizations) to create the pie charts.
Teacher resource
To learn more about how to use Callysto learning resources (Jupyter notebooks) in your classroom, visit our getting started page.
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