Animal Crossing: New Horizons kept me sane throughout the first Melbourne COVID lockdown. Now, in lockdown 4, it seems right that I should look back at this cheerful, relaxing game and do some data stuff. I’m going to take the Animal Crossing villagers in the Tidy Tuesday Animal Crossing dataset and combine it with survey data from the Animal Crossing Portal, giving each villager a measure of popularity. I’ll use the Google Cloud Vision API to annotate each of the villager thumbnails, and...
