This project is part of Udacity Data Analyst Nanodegree.
Data Source - https://www.kaggle.com/kemical/kickstarter-projects
Crowdfunding has become one of the main sources of initial capital for small businesses and start-up companies that are looking to launch their first products. Websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo provide a platform for millions of creators to present their innovative ideas to the public. This is a win-win situation where creators could accumulate initial fund while the public get access to cutting-edge prototypical products that are not available in the market yet.
The dataset contain data on 379K projects started on Kickstarter between 2009-2018.
- Removed a dubplicte column usd_pledge.
- Removed unnecessary columns.
- Found the categories and sub categoris with most projects.
- Found Average Goal, Pledge Amount.
- Found Relation between Backers and USD Goal.
- Number of projects by year.
- Number of projects by country.
- State of projects.
- Total amount pledged by category.
- Number of Successful project by main category.
- Success rate of projects by year.
- Top projects with highest set goals.
- Top Successful projects.
- Distribution of USD Goal and USD Pledged.
- Average amount Pledged per Backer on each Category.
- Number of Backers per category and their success ratio.
- Project Success Ratio by country and category.
- R
- ggplot2
- dplyr
- ggthemes
- rworldmap
- knitr
- tidyr
- gridExtra
- grid
- Missing values - https://discuss.analyticsvidhya.com/t/how-to-count-the-missing-value-in-r/2949/13
- Removing columns - https://discuss.analyticsvidhya.com/t/how-to-delete-a-column-from-a-data-frame-in-r/1311
- Extracting Year - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36568070/extract-year-from-date
- Maps - https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/rworldmap/versions/1.3-6
- Labels - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14726078/changing-title-in-multiplot-ggplot2-using-grid-arrange
- Tidyr - https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/
- Kable - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33396650/how-do-you-print-table-in-knitr
- Roataing text - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1330989/rotating-and-spacing-axis-labels-in-ggplot2
- Colors - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26387670/how-to-specify-low-and-high-and-get-two-scales-on-two-ends-using-scale-fill