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Level Difficulty in Candy Crush Saga
Analyze data from the hit mobile game, Candy Crush Saga.
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Project Description
Candy Crush Saga is a hit mobile game developed by King (part of Activision|Blizzard) that is played by millions of people all around the world.
In this Project, you will get to work with a real
Candy Crush dataset and use this data to estimate
level difficulty. This Project assumes you can manipulate data frames using dplyr
and make plots using ggplot2
.
Project Tasks
- 1Candy Crush Saga
- 2The data set
- 3Checking the data set
- 4Computing level difficulty
- 5Plotting difficulty profile
- 6Spotting hard levels
- 7Computing uncertainty
- 8Showing uncertainty
- 9A final metric
- 10Should our level designer worry?
Technologies
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Rasmus Bååth
See MoreData Science Lead at castle.io
Rasmus Bååth is a Data Science Lead at castle.io. Previously, he was an instructor and Curriculum Lead for Projects at DataCamp. He has a PhD in Cognitive Science from Lund University in Sweden. Follow him at @rabaath on Twitter or on his blog, Publishable Stuff.
Xavier Guardiola
See MoreLead Data Scientist at King (Activision Blizzard)
Xavier Guardiola is a PhD in Physics working now as lead data scientist at King, where he tries to make use of the data generated by millions of players to help making games even more fun. Before that, he was promoting and applying data science in several start-ups. You can follow him on Twitter at @xguardi.