The Acagamic » Statistics http://www.acagamic.com usable game science Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:53:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Three Cool Things You Wish You Knew Before About Bibliometrics http://www.acagamic.com/research/stats/three-cool-things-you-wish-you-knew-before-about-bibliometrics/ http://www.acagamic.com/research/stats/three-cool-things-you-wish-you-knew-before-about-bibliometrics/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:32:34 +0000 The Acagamic http://www.acagamic.com/?p=223 Biblio... WTF? Yeah, you think, here is the science guy with his words again, but actually bibliometrics is a a good set of methods to understand and study research in your field of interest. Usually, all it requires is a publication search engine, like Scirus, ISI Web of Science (you need an institutional login), Google [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/research/stats/three-cool-things-you-wish-you-knew-before-about-bibliometrics/feed/ 0 Game Industry Sales Data http://www.acagamic.com/research/stats/game-industry-sales-data/ http://www.acagamic.com/research/stats/game-industry-sales-data/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:33:25 +0000 The Acagamic http://www.acagamic.com/?p=174 Popular Data Sources After blogging about the Top 50 game developers, I got more interested in the revenue of the game industry. I have been searching for good game industry sales data for a while, since the NPD group figures are not easy to come by and studies related to revenue usually cost quite a [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/research/stats/game-industry-sales-data/feed/ 5 Fun with Steam Statistics http://www.acagamic.com/research/stats/fun-with-steam-statistics/ http://www.acagamic.com/research/stats/fun-with-steam-statistics/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:48:23 +0000 The Acagamic http://www.acagamic.com/?p=34 Our favorite gaming platform Steam has not only become one of my favorite tools for purchasing games, but it also seems to sport some interesting features for statistics related to Valve’s games. Now, being the nice guys they are, they make some of those available to the public. I find especially the statistics they report [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/research/stats/fun-with-steam-statistics/feed/ 2