Chapter 12: Game Data Mining

1. The data revolution in games – and everywhere else – calls for analysis methods that scale to with dataset size. The solution: game data mining 2. Game data mining deals with the challenges of acquiring actionable insights from game telemetry. 3. Read the chapter for an introduction to game data mining, an overview of methods commonly and not so commonly used, examples, case studies and a substantial amount of practical advice on how to employ game data mining effectively.

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