Indianapolis and tabletop games – 23% of Indianapolis’ Kickstarter projects are tabletop games, a greater share than any other US city.But the analysis also points to many other creative communities that are not so well known. San Francisco is unsurprisingly heavy in technology projects, and Nashville’s Kickstarter projects predominantly relate to music. Polygraph’s results confirm most of the well-known cultural stereotypes.
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Polygraph takes a novel approach to this question, teasing out America’s creative communities by analysing the full history of projects successfully crowdfunded via Kickstarter. Each map is designed after thorough research, and it is based on the information available to us. World History Maps are used in dozens of Wikipedia history articles, and several historical sites link to them or use them directly, with our permission. But creative efforts are often side hustles – they’re garage/basement/cottage industries that will not appear in a census. Modern History Maps (1500 AD to Present) 1500 AD 1 Modern map currently finished. Pretty much all existing attempts to map creative communities use census and jobs data. However, as the visual storytelling publication Polygraph points out, those results may not capture the full picture. Previous studies have investigated this question by analysing employment data.
Nashville is famous for its vibrant music scene Los Angeles is home to America’s film industry – but what about other cities? What creative communities thrive in Seattle, Philadelphia or Cleveland? Using Kickstarter data to identify the US’ creative communities See Schneider’s full analysis for the answers to these questions and more.
How bad is the rush hour traffic from Midtown to JFK? Where does the Bridge and Tunnel crowd hang out on Saturday nights? What time do investment bankers get to work? And could Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson have made it from 72nd and Broadway to Wall Street in less than 30 minutes? If Uber manages to sustain an average annual growth rate of 40% and taxi ridership continues to decline by 8% a year, Uber will catch up to New York’s taxi industry by 2018. Over the same period, the number of taxis rides fell by 10%. When will Uber overtake taxis in New York City?Īccording to Schneider, Uber’s year-on-year growth rate was 90% as of June, 2016. Image: Todd Schneider/NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission