cash-app-inc/epic-games-plr

Epic Games for Proximate Link Regression

Summary

1. Name: epic-games-plr
2. Description: This dataset involves a bi-partite review network between game critic companies and games released on Epic Games Store.
3. Task: The task is predicting the review score given the identity of critic owner company and game, in addition to the time of review and game features.
4. Date of Creation: 01.07.2024
5. Last Update: 01.07.2024
6. Original Source: https://zenodo.org/records/7606569
7. Contact Information: email
8. License: CC BY 4.0

Statistics

Category	Data
Number of Nodes	1,156
Number of Edges	17,584
Number of Node Features	573
Number of Edge Features	512
Number of Timestamps	3267

Download

1. Format: Compressed data.pt which involves a python dictionary as follows:

   data = {
     "node_attr": torch.FloatTensor,
     "edge_index": torch.LongTensor,
     "edge_time": torch.FloatTensor,
     "edge_attr": torch.FloatTensor,
     "edge_label": torch.FloatTensor,
     "num_nodes": int
   }
   

2. Size: 2.57 MB
3. Location: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ca-aird/epicgames/blob/main/data.zip

Citation

BiBTeX:

@article{,
    title={Benchmarking Edge Regression on Temporal Networks},
    author={Muberra Ozmen and Florence Regol and Thomas Markovich},
    journal={X},
    volume={X},
    number={X},
    pages={X},
    year={X},
    publisher={X}
}

Preprocessing

Epic Games Store is a digital video game storefront. The original dataset contains information on the games released on the platform and their critics provided by different resources. Relevant to this work, the dataset includes two types of records: game and critic.

The critic records are used to define the graph such that the source and destination of the critiques, i.e., the authors' companies and game identities, form the set of vertices and each critic denotes a temporal edge between them. The raw data fields of a critic record, their descriptions and usages are as follows:

Field	Description	Usage
company	Company name that rated the game: generated an identification number that is different from any value in game_id for each sample in the set of unique values.	Used as source node
author	Author commented about the game: not used because of missing values.	Not used
game_id	Identification of game.	Used as destination node
date	Date of critic: converted to timestamp.	Used as edge time
rating	Rating of game (out of 100): normalized to [0, 1].	Used as edge target
comment	Author comment about the game: not used because observed after date.	Not used
top_critic	Verify if is a top critic (authors with verdict): not used because observed after date.	Not used

Each vertex, i.e., an author company or game, is associated with a feature vector. The features of game vertices are calculated by textual data such as game description, nominal data such as genres, and interval data such as price based on game records:

Field	Description	Usage
id	Identification of game.
name	Name of game.
game_slug	Short name of game.
description	Description of game: concatenated with name and game_slug, and vectorized to TF-IDF features with a vocabulary size of 512 and a maximum word frequency of 0.8.	Used as node feature
price	Price of game: normalized to [0, 1].	Used as node feature
platform	Platforms that the game is available on: converted to categorical data with 0/1 indicator.	Used as node feature
genres	Genres of game: converted to categorical data with 0/1 indicator.	Used as node feature
release_date	Release date of game: converted to timestamp.	Used as node feature
developer	Company that developed the game.	Unused
publisher	Company that published the game.	Unused

Notes

1. Acknowledgements:
   • All funding was provided by Block Inc.
2. References:
   • Gomes, 2014. Dataset on Epic Games Store.

Author Statement

I, Muberra Ozmen, declare that I bear full responsibility for the dataset described herein, including its contents and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. By providing access to this dataset, I confirm that it is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Users are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially

Under the following conditions:

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