Game data science / Magy Seif El-Nasr, Truong Huy Nguyen Dinh, Alessandro Canossa, Anders Drachen.
| Author/creator | El-Nasr, Magy Seif |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021. |
| Description | xvi, 397 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Nguyen, Truong-Huy D. |
| Other author/creator | Canossa, Alessandro. |
| Other author/creator | Drachen, Anders. |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Contents | Game Data Science. An introduction -- Data preprocessing -- Introduction to statistics and probability theory -- Data abstraction -- Data analysis through visualization -- Clustering methods in Game Data Science -- Supervised learning in Game Data Science -- Supervised learning in Game Data Science. Model validation and evaluation -- Neural networks -- Sequence analysis of Game Data -- Advanced sequence analysis -- Case study. Social network analysis applied to in-game communities to identify key social players -- Conclusions and remarks -- Appendix A. Games used in the book. |
| Abstract | "Game Data Science delivers a thorough introduction to this new domain and serves as a definitive guide to the methods and practices of computer science, analytics, and data science as applied to video games. It is the ideal resource for professional learners and students seeking to understand how data science is used within the game development and production cycle, as well as within the interdisciplinary field of games research." -- back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021932524 |
| ISBN | 019289787X hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780192897879 hardback |
| ISBN | 0192897888 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780192897886 paperback |
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