The problem with heat maps, like this one, is they end up effectively as maps of population density. To make a heat map informative, consider coloring the map zones proportionately to the population in that area.
"The data set I scraped shows $957,512,698 total pledged (I am missing a few campaigns that threw errors when scraping) across 131,348 total campaigns."<p>Thats an impressive amount of scraping. I wonder if kickstarter noticed. Probably not given their volume of traffic must be quite large.
This is not where the money came from, but where it went, right? So how come there are so many countries? Isn't Kickstarter working only in a handful of countries (basically wherever Amazon is)? But I see a lot of other places, too.
> Meanwhile, project creation is currently available to individuals in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand who meet the requirements below.<p>How do people outside of these create campaigns?
Nice. It would be interesting to see more visualizations or summary statistics that show what type of phrases, topics, or other features of a Kickstarter campaign make it most likely to get funded.
I would also be curious on the failed kickstarters as well. Perhaps show the success as green, in progress as yellow, and failed as red.<p>We all can learn how the failures fail. It is HN.
Why does the UK have so much more than the rest of Europe? Is this becuase they speak english or do they have more of an entrepreneurial attitude than everyone else?