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There is a game I play / try to make myself okay / try so hard to make the pieces all fit / smash it apart / just for the f**k of it (Nine Inch Nails: The Big Come Down) After this rather distressing opening by the Nine Inch Nails, let’s turn to a more uplifting topic: video games! There is a dataset on Kaggle with ratings for over 4000 video games. Let’s see what we can do with that, shall we? Preparations First, I’ll load the file. I like fread() from {datatable} because it does most of the boring work for you like checking the separator - and it’s really fast. It creates a data.table, of course, and for this post, I don’t want that. So, I’m converting it ‘back’ to a data.frame. library(data.table) games

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