A Dashboard for the Board Game Geeks among us
As many Board Game Geeks like myself track the scores of board game matches I decided to create an application allowing for the exploration of this data. Moreover, it felt like a nice opportunity to see how much information can be extracted from relatively simple data.
As a Data Scientist and self-proclaimed Board Game Nerd I obviously made sure to write down the results of every board game I played. The data in the application is currently my own, but will be extended to include those of others.
This application is a Streamlit dashboard hosted on Heroku that can be used to explore the results from board game matches that I tracked over the last year.
There are currently four pages available in the application:
- ♟ General Statistics ♟
- This gives a general overview of the data including frequency of games over time, most games played in a day, and longest break between games.
- ♟ Player Statistics ♟
- As you play with other people it would be interesting to see how they performed. This page allows you to see, per player, an overview of their performance across games.
- This also includes a one-sample Wilcoxon signed-rank test to test if a player performs significantly better/worse than the average for one board game.
- ♟ Head to Head ♟
- I typically play two-player games with my wife and thought it would be nice to include a head to head page. This page describes who is the better of two players between and within games.
- ♟ Explore Games ♟
- This page serves to show statistics per game, like its distribution of scores, frequency of matches and best/worst players.