Why Analytics for Games

Course Modality

Instructor-led training

Course Level

INTERMEDIATE

Course Time

60 MINUTES

Course Language

English

Course Overview

This course addresses the use of analytics in gaming use cases. Learners will explore the benefit of analytics and how insights can be used to improve game design, increase efficiency of game operations, and inform financial and strategic decisions. Learners will see different sources and types of game data to use for business intelligence and how an analytics pipeline can be used to translate game data to answers.

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

  • Foundational understanding of cloud computing and Amazon Web Services (AWS), equivalent to Cloud Practitioner Essentials certification
  • Basic knowledge of data analytics and AWS Analytics services, equivalent to Data Analytics Fundamentals

 

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

  • Business leaders
  • Game developers
  • Other game industry professionals

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Online Practice Labs

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Applied Projects

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Learner Social Forums

A support team focused on helping you succeed alongside a peer community

Skill Covered

This course is designed to teach you how to:

  • Describe the business case for analytics in the games industry
  • Identify and describe business questions about games and data sources to provide answers
  • Identify and describe types of data to provide answers to business questions
  • Describe the key components of an analytics pipeline.

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Course Curriculum

  • Introduction

Business case for analytics in games

  • Analytics enable great games
  • Cost of development
  • Free-to-play games and games as a service
  • Reasons for analyzing
  • Impact of not having a data-gathering plan
  • Analytics in the Cloud

Determining what to measure

  • What to measure in your game
  • Common questions for game development insights
  • Determining the speed of insights
  • Analyzing data in real-time with streaming analytics
  • Analyzing data over time with batch analytics
  • Planning your solution

Understanding types of data

  • Understanding different types of data

Components of an analytics pipeline

  • Exploring the analytics pipelines
  • Potential challenges
  • AWS services for analytics
  • Summary
  • Knowledge assessment

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