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Kickstarter Data Project

Kickstarter Data Project

Abhishek Nandakumar

December 04, 2013
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  1. Our Data. We Had 87000 projects. 300,000 users. We Used

    15000 projects 400,000 users (with repetitions). We Collected Twitter + Facebook Shares. Project Creator’s Facebook Friend Count.
  2. Cleansing. We Were Left With 12000 projects. We Chose Projects

    with >1 backers. Log scale. We Discarded Facebook data (extremely inconsistent)
  3. Features. Backer Location Variance Presence of Video Backers Comments Images

    Pledges Minimum Pledge Maximum Pledge Tweets Facebook Friends Art Dance Design Fashion Film/Video Food Games Music Publishing Technology
  4. Significant Features. Backer Location Variance 2e-16 Has video 0.000455 Backers

    2e-16 Comments 2e-16 Image Count 0.000290 Maximum Pledge 2e-16 Tweet Count 3.75e-05 Design 3.60e-05 Games 3.25e-14 Technology 0.001938
  5. (without Backers) Comics 0.049473 Design 3.60e-05 Food 0.013668 Games 3.25e-14

    Technology 0.001938 Backer Location Variance 0.001512 Comments 2e-16 Image Count 0.000524 Number of Pledges 0.017430 Maximum Pledge 2e-16 Tweet Count 9.14e-06 Significant Features.
  6. Classifiers. 0 0 1634 3111 3052 1516 59 118 GaussianRBF

    65% Accuracy Linear 96.3% Accuracy SVM