ds-kickstarter-project

Introduction

The project evaluates kickstarter campaign data from 2009 to 2018 in order to predict the expected amount of money for current or future project ideas via an user interface.

About Dataset

Kaggle - Kickstarter Projects

Setup Environment

setup first time:

conda env create -f environment.yml

activate the environment

conda activate ds-kickstarter

update the environment:

conda env update --file environment.yml --prune

Interface Example

run the interface by typing

python3 main.py

here is an example of how the interface and the predicted output looks like:

The input was:

• Name - Intimacy Cards
• Country - Germany
• Combined_category - Games - Playing Cards
• Goal - 10000
• Month - 10
• Duration_days - 30

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Welcome to kickstarter prediction project.
What is the name of your project?
>>> Intimacy Cards
Whats your country?
    0: United States
    1: United Kingdom
    2: Canada
    3: Australia
    4: New Zealand
    5: Netherlands 
    6: Sweden
    7: Denmark
    8: Norway
    9: Ireland
   10: Germany
   11: France
   12: Spain
   13: Belgium
   14: Italy
   15: Switzerland
   16: Austria
   17: Luxembourg
   18: Singapore
   19: Hong Kong
   20: Mexico
   21: Japan
>>> 10
What is the goal of your project?
>>> 10000
How many days will your project be online?
>>> 30
On which month will you start?
>>> 10
Select your main category:
    0: Fashion
    1: Film & Video
    2: Art
    3: Technology
    4: Journalism
    5: Publishing
    6: Theater
    7: Music
    8: Photography
    9: Games
   10: Design
   11: Food
   12: Crafts
   13: Comics
   14: Dance
>>> 9
Main category: Games
Select your sub category:
    0: Puzzles
    1: Video Games
    2: Tabletop Games
    3: Games
    4: Gaming Hardware
    5: Live Games
    6: Playing Cards
    7: Mobile Games
>>> 6
Sub category: Playing Cards
Games - Playing Cards
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         Name_length - 14                  
             Country - Germany             
   Combined_category - Games - Playing Cards
                Goal - 10000               
             Backers - 0                   
               Month - 10                  
       Duration_days - 30                  
                Name - Intimacy Cards      
------------------------------------------------------------

You can expect:
- backers --- prediction -------
|         5 |          626.95$ |
|        10 |          626.95$ |
|        25 |         1738.67$ |
|        50 |         3842.96$ |
|        75 |         6717.12$ |
|       100 |         7719.76$ |
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|       125 |        10792.91$ |
|       150 |        11497.47$ |
|       175 |        13302.41$ |
|       200 |        13302.41$ |
|       250 |        15359.70$ |
|       300 |        19294.52$ |
|       500 |        34452.08$ |
|      1000 |        53332.82$ |
|     10000 |       512139.63$ |
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You need at least 125 backers for your project ;)

The final output will make predictions for the calculated 'Pledged' values based on different numbers of backers.

The input example of Intimacy Cards was actually a live kickstarter campaign running on the platform. Looking back after it finished in November 2023, this kickstarter project collected 11264 $ from 208 backers. Our model predicted in October 2023, that the project would need at least 125 backers to succeed, and if the number of backers is 200, the predicted outcome was 13302.41 $.