Deadline - Deadline date for crowdfunding.Launched - Date the project was launched.The data is available as a zip download with 2 CSVs - one with the data dictionary, the other with 375k rows of Kickstarter projects. What are highest pledges of successful projects?.What are the most successful categories or countries?.What does the (sub)-category tree look like visually in terms of success?.Some questions we can ask after importing the datasets: The dataset contains 375k Kickstarter projects from 2009 to 2017, including category, country, and pledge data. We looked at the Kickstarter site overall - and at a particular project - to relate the data in the dataset with the actual site. If you’d rather watch than read, here is the video of our live-stream: If you want to code along, sign up – or in – to, create your free database, and join us.Being avid Kickstarter backers ourselves (especially for board games and gadgets), that dataset was very compelling to us. This week for our “Discover Aura Free” series, we want to look at a Kickstarter dataset from Maven Analytics recommended by our colleague Jennifer Reif.

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