What is the distribution of the goal feature in this dataset https://www.kaggle.com/kemical/kickstarter-projects
I was checking the distribution of the &quot;goal&quot; feature in this 2016 KickStarter data set. I figure goal would be more normally distributed but it wasn't. I checked the Kick Starter website for published statistics. It seems the sampling was random as certain categories  appear at the frequency Kick Starter Published but the data didn't meet the required assumptions for a T test. I check the Kaggle site for a summary of the goal data and the distrubtion looks the same but I'm very skeptical. I made a qq plot to check normality but this really can't be right.
What type of distribution is the column 'goal' in this data set? If the distribution should look like this why? Maybe I broke something or put in the wrong code and I wanted to be sure. My gut is telling me to take a serious look at the goal column.
It looks like it's probably pareto-distributed- meaning that most goals are small, some are medium, and a few are REALLY big. It's fat-tailed and not normally distributed at all.
A nice way to see it is to do a histogram plot with log=True and bump up the number of bins.