Nowcasting Mobile Games Ranking Using Web Search Query Data

Table 1

Granger causality test result for the top 20 games in App Annie (). Games in which the Google Trends search index does not provide statistically significant information about the future values of the ranking are marked with .

#	Game name	# of examined points		value
1	Candy Crush Saga	111	4.62951	0.03355
2	Clash of Clans	110	9.91220	0.00211
3	My Talking Angela	50	3.57057	0.04476
4	8 Ball Pool	77	13.20322	0.00050
5	Piano Tiles	85	1.05844	0.85428
6	Subway Surfers	121	10.02277	0.01328
7	Color Switch	65	1.61014	0.24453
8	Temple Run	96	19.90538	0.00213
9	Traffic Rider	94	17.69072	0.00297
10	Pou	83	12.90426	0.00166
11	Basketball Stars	49	1.22456	0.30063
12	Clash Royale	113	10.23644	0.00285
13	Stack	97	3.94716	0.08219
14	slither.io	64	6.65071	0.00670
15	Disney Crossy Road	89	4.80256	0.02357
16	My Talking Tom	74	2.79033	0.04819
17	Hungry Shark World	102	61.19054	0.00025
18	Dream League Soccer 2016	89	4.64344	0.014555
19	Candy Crush Jelly Saga	75	147.517	0.000085
20	Geometry Dash Meltdown	95	13.16245	0.000299