Plotting Pokemon Max Combat Power

This notebook contains nine different iterations of plots in an attempt to visualize a Pokemon's max Combat Power (CP) in Pokemon GO. CP represents a Pokemon's ability to perform well in battle, a higher CP generally means a Pokemon will be a better fighter. CP is calculated from a Pokemon's base stats: Attack, Defence, and Stamina (somtimes called HP). As a Pokemon levels up, it's base stats increase and as a result Combat Power also increases.

Example output:

See Pokemon_Max_CP_Plotting.ipynb Jupyter Notebook for code.

Table of Contents

• Equations - Calculating CP
• Mining Data
• Attempt 1 - Scatter Plot (Level vs CP)
• Attempt 2 - Scatter Plot (Pokemon vs CP)
• Attempt 3 - Layered Bar Chart
• Attempt 4 - Four Bar Chart Subplots (sliced by generation, sorted by number)
• Attempt 5 - Horizontal Bar Chart (sorted by number)
• Attempt 6 - Horizontal Bar Chart (sorted by CP)
• Attempt 7 - Horizonatal Bar Chart (Colorized)
  • What color is Bulbasaur? - Getting to know OpenCV color spaces
  • Finding dominant colors in pokemon sprites (k-means and frequency count)
  • Plotting Attempt 7 - Horizonatal Bar Chart (Colorized)
• Attempt 8 - Four Bar Chart Subplots (sorted by CP)
• Attempt 9 - Four Horizontal Bar Chart Subplots (sorted by CP)

This project covered a huge variaty of programming and Python related topics that I had never been exposed to. I learned a lot of new information about the following (in no particular order):

• matplotlib
• numpy
• pandas
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Open CV
• color spaces
• json
• data mining
• Google Protocol Buffers
• k-means clustering algorithm