Video Game Sales - Group 20

[alexYinanGu0]

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To complete by the group

• Name of the app: Video Game Sales Dashboard
• Link to the repo in milestone2: https://github.com/UBC-MDS/video_game_sales_dashboard/releases/tag/v.0.1.0
• Link to the proposal.md file where it is the description of the persona and scenario: https://github.com/UBC-MDS/video_game_sales_dashboard/blob/main/doc/proposal.md

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2. Review the group that is one number ahead of your group's number. For example, if you are group 5, review group 6. If you are group 30, review group 1. Paste your answers in the issue of the group assigned.

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To complete by the group reviewing:

Persona

• Provide 3 pieces of constructive feedback that could help the app to be better suited to the scenario it was designed for
• Provide 3 pieces of constructive feedback that could help the app to be better suited to the user(persona) it was designed for

Frontend / layout

• Is the text (plot labels / titles / subtitles) easy to read?
• Are the plots selected appropiated for the data? Can you think of other alternatives or improvements for the plots regarding interactivity/reactivity or plot selection?
• Was the dashboard organized in a way that was easy to read (columns / rows) or you would suggest a change in this sense?
• Would you prefer including tabs / navbars to improve the navigation or you think it is better to visualize everything in one screen by the nature of the content?
• Are the plots or other images described properly for the persona described?

Backend

• Are the options that you can select in the widgets working fine or have you found some cases where it is not working?
• If there are interactive plots: are the labels clear and easy to understand?

Documentation

• Was the documentation easy to understand from the README.md how to use the app? How could the documentation be improved?
• Was the app intuitive to use without reading the documentation? What information could be good to include?

Indicate something you would like to include in your own app after reviewing this one

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[joshsia]

To complete by the group reviewing:

Reviewer: Group 19

Persona

• Provide 3 pieces of constructive feedback that could help the app to be better suited to the scenario it was designed for

1. The dashboard looks really good now! It might be better if fewer plots were included because currently it seems a bit overwhelming (although this might be because of the layout of the dashboard seen on my laptop - see screenshot attached below)
2. We think it would be nicer if the pie chart tooltip showed the company name as well (currently it only shows market share) so that users can directly get the company name if there are many companies in the pie chart.
3. Since there is data for EU and JP sales as well, we think it would be great to include these in the dashboard!

• Provide 3 pieces of constructive feedback that could help the app to be better suited to the user (persona) it was designed for

1. Since Shintaro is interested in the market share of PS4 over the past few years, it might be helpful for him to show the evolution of market share as a time series plot, or maybe even the mean and standard deviation.
2. We think it would also be useful for Shintaro to get an idea of what genres are associated with the least sales so that he can make more informed decisions.
3. We think that Shintaro would probably be interested in the user scores since this can reflect market demand.

Frontend / layout

• Is the text (plot labels / titles / subtitles) easy to read? Yes, they are easy to read.

• Are the plots selected appropiated for the data? Can you think of other alternatives or improvements for the plots regarding interactivity/reactivity or plot selection? Yes, they are appropriate. For the Sales trend plot, we think it would be great to have an x-axis slider with two knobs to select the minimum and maximum years.

• Was the dashboard organized in a way that was easy to read (columns / rows) or you would suggest a change in this sense? The dashboard was generally organised well. However, due to a difference in screen size, it was a bit difficult to see all the plots in the dashboard at once (see screenshot below). We think it is also worth considering organising the bar plots all in one column.

• Would you prefer including tabs / navbars to improve the navigation or you think it is better to visualize everything in one screen by the nature of the content? We think the tabs in the dashboard were useful and was appropriate for the visualization.

• Are the plots or other images described properly for the persona described? Yes, they were properly described.

Backend

• Are the options that you can select in the widgets working fine or have you found some cases where it is not working? The x-axis slider for the Sales Trend plot worked properly, however, the x-axis starts to show decimal values (e.g. 2013.5) when the range of years is smaller. It would be great to only show the integer years. All the other widgets were working properly.

• If there are interactive plots: are the labels clear and easy to understand? Yes, the labels are clear and easy to understand.

Documentation

• Was the documentation easy to understand from the README.md how to use the app? How could the documentation be improved? Yes, the documentation was easy to understand and there was even a gif showing users how to use the tab!

• Was the app intuitive to use without reading the documentation? What information could be good to include? Yes, the app was very intuitive to use. For the x-axis slider, it might be nice to add a small text saying something along the lines of "Select a year range".

Indicate something you would like to include in your own app after reviewing this one After reviewing this dashboard, we think that our group can include a tab because it is good for organizing plots.