README.md

Exploratory Data Analysis on the Games of Hikaru Nakamura

This repo contains my analysis of Hikaru Nakamura's games with R. The data used is scraped from Chess.com using rvest. The code for the scraper can be seen here.

Resources Used

R Packages:

• core tidyverse packages(dplyr, ggplot2, readr, tidyr, stringr)
• gridExtra
• rvest

Data Source: https://www.chess.com/games/hikaru-nakamura

Dataset Descriptions

scraped_data.csv
columns:

• Player 1 (Name and rating of white player)
• Player 2 (Name and rating of black player)
• Result (Game results):
  • 1-0 if white wins
  • 0-1 if black wins
  • 1/2-1/2 if game is drawn
• Moves (Number of moves in the game)
• Year (The year the game is played)
• Opening (The full name of openings with move notation)

cleaned_data.csv
columns:

• Color (The color of Hikaru's piece)
• Rating (His rating)
• Oppponent (The name of his opponent)
• Opponent_rating (His opponent's rating)
• Result (Game results):
  • Win if Hikaru won
  • Loss if Hikaru lost
  • Draw if game is drawn
• Opening (Generalized name of the opening, without variations and notation)
• Moves
• Year

Findings

Here are some of my findings after performing the analysis. The full analysis is located here.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.