- What are the characteristics of the campaigns that succeeded? Failed? Were cancelled?
- Does category or main category have anything to do with the state of a campaign?
- Maybe currency has something to do with success, cancellation, failure or any other state? Perhaps British campaigns are more/less successful that American or Australian, etc.
- Does the monetary goal have anything to with final state?
- How does the number of backers affect the overall amount raised and the state of the campaign?
- Most of the column names are self-explanatory when looking at them in the context of the dataframe:
- ID, name, category, main_category, currency, deadline, goal, launched, pledged, state, backers, country
- Except for the following (from https://www.kaggle.com/kemical/kickstarter-projects):
- usd_pledged: conversion to US dollars of the pledged column (conversion done by kickstarter).
- usd pledged real: conversion to US dollars of the pledged column (conversion from Fixer.io API).
- usd goal real: conversion to US dollars of the goal column (conversion from Fixer.io API).
- We can keep this in mind for context when looking at analyses and visualizations.
- Since the vast majority of campaigns fail in the end, the difference between goals set and amounts actually raised is drastic.
- It seems that campaigns that ask for lower pledges succeed at a higher rate and those which ask for higher pledges fail at a higher rate.
- Translated currency amounts show that the Swiss set the highest goals. It also seems that they receive the most pledges in the end.
- Is there a better currency for having success in a kickstarter campaign?
- If I'm from Australia, should I conduct my campaign in USD for more success or stick to my local currency? Will there even be a difference?