2025: Challenge 1 - Console Game Sales

Challenge by: Rosh Khan

Context

This week, we are focusing on an online marketplace for buying and selling used games. The marketplace wants to identify its top performing games by their rating and sales so they can reach out to game developers for potential partnership opportunities. But first, the data needs to be cleaned up!

Inputs

There are two inputs:




Requirements

  • Input the 2 files

  • The field ‘Name’ contains game titles and their developers. Fix this by creating two fields: ‘Game Title’ and ‘Developer’.

  • The ‘User Review’ field also contains two pieces of information; a star rating out of 5 and any comments left by customers. Extract only the star rating. If no rating is present, keep it as N/A. Keep only 5 star rated games.

  • Connect the GBP Exchange Rates file to the Sales Jan-Feb 25 table and use the ‘Exchange Rate’ field to convert all sales into GBP. Name this field ‘Sales (£)’. Sales currency based on the local currency of where the sale occurred.

  • Sum up the data set by Game title to calculate the total Sale in GBP (irrespective of date sold) .

  • Extract the top 5 games by sale.


Outputs

3 fields: 
  • Game Title
  • Sales (GBP)
  • Sales Rank

5 rows (6 incl. headers)

You can view the output here.

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