One of the simplest questions one can ask about a particular Kickstarter campaign is: “What are the odds it will get funded?” Unfortunately, it’s not…
I’ve written before that I’m using the python library scrapy to get data from Kickstarter to fuel my analysis. While there are some positives to…
In physics, one of the distinctions we make (especially at the introductory level) is between kinematics, or the description of motion, and dynamics, or an…
Recently a couple of posts about becoming a data scientist have appeared on Hacker News. Both the posts and the discussion surrounding them seemed relevant…
I’ve been using scrapy to pull data from Kickstarter’s website. Though I wouldn’t say that I’m an expert, I have so far been able to…
The place to start any research study is with questions. If we don’t know what we’re asking, we won’t know when we’ve found the answer….
In my introductory post, I mentioned that my first research project on this site deals with Kickstarter. I want to take a little bit of…
Hi there! My name is Cavendish McKay, and I’m starting something new here, so I thought I ought to introduce it, and myself. I suppose…
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