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We are planning to analyze the projects that aim to raise money in Kickstarter, one of the biggest crowdfunding platforms. The idea is to determine the key factors for a kickstarter campaign to be successful or not. Check the differences between businees categories and their success rate, and also run an analysis on the amount of money businesses want to raise and check if there are any particular aspects that may be key for success and that can be told to entrepreneurs wanting to initiate a crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter.
We want to run also a geographic analysis, and see whether depending on where you launch the campaign may determine a major probability of raising money or not. Furthermore, once done this deep analysis on all possible variables extracted from kickstarter data, we will want to introduce new macroeconomic data, regarding financial crisis and other aspects, and check whether this new data with campaigns timelines may provide new insights and see how correlated are macroeconomic tendencies to successful crowdfuncing campaigns.
The final idea is to present a dashboard for any entrepreneur that wants to run a crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter or other crowdfunding platform, where they can see in a friendly way all the key concepts to take into account, what amount of money tends to have the highest probability of being raised, the ideal duration of the campaign and much more other concept that can be realy valuable if you want to raise money via crowdfunding. Also we will want to be able to allow the entrepreneur to filter by business category and even by country and check the best parameters to set in their crowdfunding campaign for reaching their objective. We may consider also as an additional feature introduce data from other crowdfunding campaigns, and check if the results look similar to kickstarter or maybe differ from one platform to another.
A complete guideline on the requirements for the projects can be found in the following link:
We will be uploading the documents to Drive. You can find the link to the Drive Folder here.
Useful links related to the project:
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Data links:
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Research Links
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Tools links:
The team is formed by the following members:
- Álvaro Gericke Parga - A20434027
The project will be divided in various sprints. The sprint will have a total duration of 1 week. You will find the documents related to each sprint under the deliverables folder. Each sprint will define a complete functional product to be deployed.
The project folders and code is structured in the following way:
__data__: This folder contains all the csv files order by year and months in folders. This folder will be local so in order to download all the data you should run the scrapping script.__docs__: This folder contains papers regarding kickstarter studies as well as other documentation about the project such as learning paths taken for the different tools used within the projects as well as a thorough explanation of all the tools used in the project. also we will have all the documentation about the sprint deliverables, set-ups and objectives under this folder. this folder will have the following sub-folders:__deliverables__: Contains all the different deliverables or the links to them that are required throughout the year.__tools__: Contains information, links and keys for the tools used in the project.__research-papers__: Contains reasearches that have been used as sources of information in the project.
__src/__: This folder contains all the source code for the project. Under this folder you will find subfolders with scripts and other code for a specific purpose.