This is excellent, thank you both! For future analysis to be useful to writers in faction and fantasy, we will actually need charts that also remove the outlier of Sanderson's amazing campaigns, a both: and approach. Otherwise people will think they can extrapolate from the average for ideas of their own campaigns but it will be so unduly influenced by his wild success it could set people up for unrealistic ideas. I'd also be curious to hear from you about other crowdfunding platforms without that all or nothing approach of kickstarter which then makes people be overly conservative in goals which can shrink overall contributions.
Brandon Sanderson's campaign was in March of 2022, so it already doesn't include it. As a fantasy author, I think there's a lot of valuable data in this, and don't think you should cherrypick data.
Yes, I noted "for future analysis" because I understood from your article that the data only went through 2021 and didn't include it. It's not cherry picking data to provide a deeper layer of analysis. It's quite standard in data analysis to look deeper to see what are the drivers. In the 2022 data, the obvious driver will be one campaign. For the dat to be useful, that has to be shown, analyzed, discussed or the data becomes irrelevant for any practical application other than large scale investors looking for industry trends to fund various start up projects, which isn't really your wonderful audience and work. This is my only point. Thank you for all you have contributed to the writer space, you are appreciated.
This was really interesting, as I'm just starting my research process for an upcoming publishing project! Thank you for this!
You’re welcome!
An excellent breakdown - and I absolute love seeing the Comics bracket punching above it's weight in that last graph.
Yaaas! Same :)
This is excellent, thank you both! For future analysis to be useful to writers in faction and fantasy, we will actually need charts that also remove the outlier of Sanderson's amazing campaigns, a both: and approach. Otherwise people will think they can extrapolate from the average for ideas of their own campaigns but it will be so unduly influenced by his wild success it could set people up for unrealistic ideas. I'd also be curious to hear from you about other crowdfunding platforms without that all or nothing approach of kickstarter which then makes people be overly conservative in goals which can shrink overall contributions.
Brandon Sanderson's campaign was in March of 2022, so it already doesn't include it. As a fantasy author, I think there's a lot of valuable data in this, and don't think you should cherrypick data.
Yes, I noted "for future analysis" because I understood from your article that the data only went through 2021 and didn't include it. It's not cherry picking data to provide a deeper layer of analysis. It's quite standard in data analysis to look deeper to see what are the drivers. In the 2022 data, the obvious driver will be one campaign. For the dat to be useful, that has to be shown, analyzed, discussed or the data becomes irrelevant for any practical application other than large scale investors looking for industry trends to fund various start up projects, which isn't really your wonderful audience and work. This is my only point. Thank you for all you have contributed to the writer space, you are appreciated.