Kickstarter is an American public-benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowd funding platform focused on creativity. The company’s stated mission is to “help bring creative projects to life”. Kickstarter has reportedly received almost $5 billion in pledges from 17.6 million backers to fund 180,000 creative projects. The dataset used for current visualizations is taken from webroboto.io repository. They developed a scrapper robot that crawls all Kickstarter projects monthly since 2009.

Innovative States & Cities in US

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Chart A: Total Pledeged Amount for Successful Projects in US (2020)

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Chart B: Number of Successful Projects by States (2020)

Successful Projects by Categories & Words

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Chart A: Most Successful Categories in Attracting Funding (2020)

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Chart B: Word Cloud of the Most Frequent Words Among the Most Successful Projects (2020)