Medical Crowdfunding Analysis

Project Status: In Progress

Crowdfunding websites are an increasingly popular channel to raise money for medical expenses. In this project, I aim to scrape data from crowdfunding sites such as

After completion of the data scraping, I'll perform exploratory analysis of the text and numeric features to look for interesting patterns. The online campaigns give information relating to:

  • goal
  • total donation received
  • story
  • number of contributors

The project could take the following routes:

  • prediction model for the amount of money raised
  • discovery of the story writing patterns for successful campaigns
  • world map visualization of monetary contributions
  • deep learning model that generates a story tailored to the campaign