As we mentioned in our previous blog post, we were going to combine all our different implementation elements, including the connections between the categories with the use of Bezier curves. Eventually, we ended up with the implementation shown below. The category name shows when you hover your cursor over a…

As we mentioned in our previous blog post, our programming/implementation ‘game’ has finally started. In this post, we describe the first steps we made in visualising our board game data design. Adjusting the dataset In order to visualise the links between the categories, we needed to change the structure of our…

This is our feedback on the data visualisation of other groups’ blogs. For group ABBDJ, considering the soccer data(https://group3proj.wixsite.com/website), we think that the research questions are very clear and well formulated. The topic is very up to date and reinforced by scientific papers. The idea of representing the data on a…

Our research question & visualisation journey — What combination of categories make up great games? “new” standard |xx — — — -o — — — -| novel The Corona pandemic of last year and the lockdown influenced people to play more games. Therefore, this dataset of 2020 is novel in the sense that since we are playing a lot of games while we have to…

The data that we decided to use concerns the 2020 ratings of board games derived from the website www.boardgamegeek.com, as well as the general characteristics of the included board games, such as the category, mechanics, weight (difficulty), number of players, etc. We found this data on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/seanthemalloy/board-game-geek-database), it was…

“Once upon a time, there was a University in the kingdom of Belgium with some students urging for visual stimulus”… Well, this is no fairytale, it is serious work! In the scope of our Visualisation in Data Science course at the University of Hasselt we are asked to do a…