Credit: polygraph.cool/kickstarter

We now know which Tampa Bay bands have made the most money off of crowd-funding website Kickstarter. It's all thanks to poly-graph.co, a nerdy ass website that runs like the devil away from long-winded essays.

Basically they use code, visuals, and animation to construct different sorts of data driven stories for people that want to know more but hate sifting through boring reports. What’s more is that their stuff is often reader-driven, embeddable, and open-source.

The website was recently given access to 100,000 Kickstarter projects. They hoped to learn more about which types of projects different cities actual throw dollars at. Polygraph founder Matthew Daniels and intern James Wenzel tackled all of the data and created this clean online summary. It's a lot of information.

"I don't find it overwhelming ever," is all Daniels would tell CL in a message.

Polygraph divided the projects into categories like music, film, publishing, art, games and more. There’s definitely a lot of music being supported in Tampa and St. Petersburg, but film and comics seem to be getting a lot of love, too.

In St. Pete, Polygraph ranked 20 different music related projects, with Oceana’s 2014 campaign to record a full length raking in the most backers. The Hip Abduction's recent campaign had the second largest number of backers, but raised over $17,000. La Lucha also had a successful Kickstarter in 2014 raising $11,067 with only 153 backers

Tampa saw 63 music projects analyzed, and guess what? It’s still the death metal capital of the world with Obituary stacking up over $60,000 to record an album last year. 

Have a look at more results below and spend the afternoon clicking through the report at polygraph.cool/kickstarter.

Credit: polygraph.cool/kickstarter

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...