Ben Weber's Blog
Distinguished data scientist at Zynga and alum from UC Santa Cruz! @bgweber
Expert Blogs
DeepMind continues making progress, but the path forward for AI researchers in academia is unclear.
An alternative to a top games list for 2018.
Closed APIs and massive compute requirements are large hurdles for universities.
Procedural content generation needs automated playtesting, here’s one approach to explore.
Using the R programming language to create interesting summarizations of expert StarCraft gameplay.
The evolution of game analytics from development telemetry to big data.
Ben Weber's Comments
Comment In: [Blog - 01/09/2015 - 01:32]
This is an interesting post Dmitri and I 'd like to hear how you distinguish predictive analytics from forecasting. In my experience, as soon as you start sharing predictive modeling with a game team they will start asking for forecasts. r n r nThe way I like to differentiate these ...
Comment In: [Blog - 09/24/2014 - 03:01]
Great article Dmitri, I m looking forward to this ongoing series r n r nDo you have any examples of vendors/APIs that allow clients to directly query the transactional data being collected This would be useful for pivoting metrics based on custom events, such as the half-pipe tricks example you ...
Comment In: [Blog - 07/29/2014 - 12:54]
Nice post. I would say the 90 rule is way off, especially if the analyst role is not embedded on the development team. r n r nAnother area sometimes overlooked when setting up telemetry is planned use of data . There s often a focus on collecting as much data ...
Comment In: [Blog - 07/17/2014 - 09:35]
Once again, great article on getting into the details of BTs. Looking forward to part two with parallel nodes and mixed strategic/tactical decision making. Here 's a blog post I wrote on Gamasutra comparing BTs to reactive planning: r n r nhttp://gamasutra.com/blogs/BenWeber/20120308/165151/ABL versus Behavior Trees.php
Comment In: [Blog - 07/07/2014 - 08:48]
How long after launch do games start to fit the Weibull distribution It 'd be interesting to see how the fit changes over time for a particular title.
Comment In: [Blog - 05/22/2014 - 12:34]
One of the biggest issues in meeting the demand for data scientists in games is a lack of data sets that students can use for building the necessary expertise. Sure, you can write a script to pull data from a web site such as the Steam Gauge tool, and even ...
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