Kickstarter is an American public-benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity and merchandising. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". Kickstarter has reportedly received more than $1.9 billion in pledges from 9.4 million backers to fund 257,000 creative projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, technology and food-related projects. (Wikipedia, 24.05.18)
The goal of this project is to represent interesting statistics about Kickstarter which include, but are not limited to, success rate, amount of money pledged and more! The main component is an interactive map which represents data for the highlighted country.
This project was part of the information visualization course from the University of Regensburg.
After cloning this repository run the following to run a local server.
$ npm install
$ npm start
Instead of running a server or build from source it's also possible to download the latest precompiled Binaries here.
After unzipping just open the index.html in your browser.
The Project can be built with
$ npm run build
The implementation is based on the dataset provided by webrobots (2016 - 2018) and Kickstarter.
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.