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Visualization of where the $1B on Kickstarter went
Maps of the creator's behind all the Kickstarter projects
- DrJokepu 13y agoI wonder what was the successful Kickstarer project from Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
- netrus 13y agoYou did not wonder quite enough to google it? https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/places/pyongyang-kp?ref=city https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/places/pyongyang-kp?ref...
- DrJokepu 13y agoSo, basically, none of these things were really from Pyongyang, just somehow related to it?
- _delirium 13y agoYeah, the data seems a bit messy. Of the three projects listed as "from" Pyongyang and successfully funded, all three appear to actually be U.S.-based people/groups. Two of them hope to use the Kickstarter money to travel to North Korea, while one of them plans to write about North Korea from NYC. If it's possible to extract the data, I would probably use the location of the person running each project (listed under their name in the right sidebar), rather than whatever location they've tagged the project with. But this might not matter a lot; they seem to usually be the same location.
- stugrey 13y agoIt's interesting to see the step change when Kickstarter launched in the UK in October 2012
- Kiro 13y ago> Meanwhile, project creation is currently available to individuals in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand who meet the requirements below. How do people outside of these create campaigns?
- mitochondrion 13y agoMove.
- peroo 13y agoThrough a middle-man able to transfer the money to wherever the company is actually located.
- Kiro 13y agoDoesn't that mean that the campaign will be flagged as being where the middle-man is?
- mjn 13y agoIt looks like you can still put down your own location. I know some of these people, whose Kickstarter lists them as being in Copenhagen: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2128128298/expeditions-conquistador https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2128128298/expeditions-... I believe in their case they used a U.S.-based publisher or agent to handle the funds (not sure of the exact arrangement), since Denmark isn't in the list of locations Kickstarter supports. But seems like KS still let them put down Copenhagen as the company location.
- louisremi 13y agoIt seems Kickstarter is making it increasingly difficult to start a campaign outside of those countries and obviously using a middle man.
- wyager 13y agoDoes anyone know for what reason(s) campaigns are limited to these countries?
- tedchs 13y agoThe problem with heat maps, like this one, is they end up effectively as maps of population density. To make a heat map informative, consider coloring the map zones proportionately to the population in that area.
- rtkwe 13y agoNot entirely true in this case. If it were then you'd expect to see more in Europe and Asia than this map shows. In the US it does devolve to a population density map.
- tel 13y agoYou're using baked-in world population distribution information exactly to make that statement.
- mithras 13y agoOf course there is a relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1138/ http://xkcd.com/1138/
- higherpurpose 13y agoThis is not where the money came from, but where it went, right? So how come there are so many countries? Isn't Kickstarter working only in a handful of countries (basically wherever Amazon is)? But I see a lot of other places, too.
- soci 13y agoWhy are you mentioning Amazon?
- mcpherrinm 13y agoKickstarter accepts money via Amazon Payments for projects based in the US.
- jeremydavis 13y agoCause Kickstarter uses Amazon to process payments.
- donpdonp 13y ago"The data set I scraped shows $957,512,698 total pledged (I am missing a few campaigns that threw errors when scraping) across 131,348 total campaigns." Thats an impressive amount of scraping. I wonder if kickstarter noticed. Probably not given their volume of traffic must be quite large.
- dalek2point3 13y agoI would love to play with this data set. Is it available?
- saimey 13y agoWell, clearly it is.
- milesgrimshaw 13y agoCan email me (username) at gmail
- aw3c2 13y agoDump it into archive.org please
- wil421 13y agoWhy does the UK have so much more than the rest of Europe? Is this becuase they speak english or do they have more of an entrepreneurial attitude than everyone else?
- keerthiko 13y agoUK is the only European country currently where "you can create a kickstarter project", ie, where you can have a local bank account and receive Kickstarter funds. Any other European country needs a US/UK (or other valid country) bank account (themselves or a "middle man") to receive their funding. Which creators have this option is obviously the main factor influencing where creators are from in Europe.
- kefka 13y agoI would also be curious on the failed kickstarters as well. Perhaps show the success as green, in progress as yellow, and failed as red. We all can learn how the failures fail. It is HN.
- izyda 13y agoNice. It would be interesting to see more visualizations or summary statistics that show what type of phrases, topics, or other features of a Kickstarter campaign make it most likely to get funded.
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- ganeumann 13y agoHow'd you like working with CartoDB?
- milesgrimshaw 13y agoReally simple to use. Just uploaded a CSV into the platform for this, set the GEOM from lat/lon I had already configured in columns, and changed the date string into a SQL Data, then simple click interface for creating each visualization. All told took no more than 5 mins for each visualization.
- ganeumann 13y agoNice. You're on a pay plan? Which one? I assume you got a lot of traffic from HN. Nice visualization, btw. It actually shows something, unlike a lot of vizzes.
- sturmeh 13y agoCan you make one of those for MtGox?