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This =Hubs Pages=*The main page represents the work used for mechanical turks for the paperHubs can be found: [[Hubs (Academic Paper)]]. *For the current work in progress for building the Hubs datasheet for the scorecard As of Spring 2016, go to: [[Hubs: Hubs Scorecard]]*For a list tracker of potential work in progress for the dataset building for the scorecard go to [[Hubs: Hubs with Data Building]]*For a set high-level overview of characteristics was created. Many of these are not what will be defined as Hubs. We will be creating a the variables for the scorecard go to help subjectively define [[Hubs: Hubs based on certain characteristics. Data]]
=Variables for Hubs=
We will be creating a "Hubs scorecard" to determine how hub-like potential spaces are. In order to do so, we will evaluate the places based on certain variables. Previous variables for potential hubs were collected. Below, we list those as well as other variables we think might be helpful to build out the scorecard.
Ideally, we would have the following variables (not collected previously):
*Onsite VC/Angel/Investors (Count or binary)
*Onsite Mentors (binary) --- ''Are these the same as advisers?''
*"Office hours" with investors or mentors (binary) --- ''note: previously collected included number of events, but did not separate them into categories (e.g. networking events, workshops, etc.). We view this separation as important''
*Onsite temporary workshops (binary or count) *** '''see mechanical turk'''
*Networking Meetups (Binary or count) *** '''see mechanical turk'''
*Sponsors and Partners (binary and list) --- a''re these the same?''
*Alumni Network (binary) --- ''not all potential hubslist this and the fact that some do might indicate its importance''
*Num of Companies --- ''to help determine size as getting physical sqfootage is difficult''
*Nonprofit (binary) --- ''helpful in determining goals of potential hubs''
*Mission Includes Key Buzzwords (e.g. "ecosystem", "community") --- ''help separate simple coworking spaces form hubs''
Example of Prior Variables Collected:*Specific Industry -- ''defined as LinkedIN Self Identifier, no categories just plain text. We think what we really want is to see if they have a specialty (e.g. healthcare)'07/29'*Num of Events --- ''relatively complete inputs, but from March 2016 (see above as well)''*Price Ariel: code Hubs variable for Single Space --- ''defined as price for flexible desk, relatively complete inputs''Hubs *Price for Office --- ''no inputs''*Twitter Activity (Multinomial or Count) --- ''High=2:<code>E:/McNair/Projects/Moderate=1Hubs/No=0, no explanations on how to categorize the activity. Also no handles''*Size (sqft) Hubs Variable--- ''no records for majority of the companies''*Num Conference Rooms --- ''no records for majority of the companies''*Onsite accelerator (binary) --- ''relatively complete inputs''*Onsite Ariel</code school (binary) --- ''relatively complete inputs''*Community Membership (binary) --- ''relatively complete inputs''>
=Test2=
*'''Twitter activity''': ''
'''UPDATE (7/14)''': Updated turk to reflect our desired formats
'''UPDATE (7/12)''': '''AUDIT RESULTS''': We noticed
*===Group 3==='''NUMBER OF EVENTSVariables Easy to Obtain''': #''UPDATE: written, not published, on amazon's mechanical turk siteTwitter activity'''''Considerations'(twit_handle)/(twit_prev_mon_cnt_tweets)/(twit_cnt_followers)/(twit_cnt_retweets)''#*Difficulties Encountered:*Expected Time to Complete:*Expectation of Results (accuracy of turk, comprehensiveness):*Other Comments''' ''Levels: '''Procedure'''Twitter Handle, #Copy the text Tweets in the Search Text into a search engine.Month, #Click on the result that is the website of the company. If there does not exist a listing on the first three pagesFollowers, mark as DNE.# Retweets#Look for links related to events, such as *'Events' or 'Calendar' on the homepage. #If not found on the homepage, check 'AboutApproach:' and check 'Community'#Count the number of events in July 2016 and record it. If there is no information of events on the website, record DNE. Note***: ''Events include meetups, workshops, info sessions etc. We do not want Easy to count them separately since it is difficult to do so. Most companies put all the events on the same section and do not put event types in the titles of the events. We have to look into the details of the events to find out the type and even we do so some events descriptions do not allow get twitter handle from Turk or Veeral's code that allows us to determine the type easily. Differentiating the types run a series of the events demands more time searches on google and effort and therefore is not suitable then use Gunny's Twitter crawler to be a mechanical turk project.get other levels from handle#'''Site URL''' ''(url)'' #*'''Onsite Mentors'''Levels: ''UPDATE: written, not published, on amazon's mechanical turk site''URL#Copy the text in the Search Text into a *''' ''Approach:'' ''' Google using Veeral's code that allows us to search engine.#Click on the result that is the website of the company. If there does not exist a listing on the first three pages, mark as DNE.''' ''Whois Date'' ''' ''(date_whois)''#Look for links related to mentorship such as *''' ''mentorsLevels:', 'mentorship' or 'mentoring programs'Date#If the key words can be identified, mark as 1*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Date active website was registered#If there is no explicit 'mentoring' section, look for links related to a description of the company, such as: 'About,Address''' 'Our Team,' (address)'Our Mission,' etc., look for a subsection or mention of mentor/mentorship/mentoring#If these exist, mark as 1.*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Will include all addresses#If not, go to links related to membership *''' ''Approach:''benefits,' 'perks,' or relatedGoogle key terms (e.g.#Do same process as end of 4 Contact Us) and 5URL using Veeral's code#If there is no mention of mentorship in these sections, type the company, city, and 'mentoring' into a search engine. If a link to a reliable website 'Nonprofit status''' ''(such as Desktimenonprofit_binary) appears and mentorship can be found in the description, mark as 1.''#If none of these steps result in a mark of 1, mark as 0 *'''Nonprofit'''Levels: ''UPDATE: written, not published, on amazon's mechanical turk site''#Copy Binary variable indicating if the text in the Search Text into potential Hub is a search engine.nonprofit organization#Click on the result *''' ''Approach:'' ''' http://www.guidestar.org/ is a site that we can use to search if a company is the website of the company. If there does nonprofit or not exist a listing on the first three pages, mark as DNE.#Go to links that describe the company, usually they are labelled: 'About', 'Our Story,Mission statement' 'Mission'#Look for the key word 'nonprofit'/(missions_stmt)'non-profit'#If 'nonprofit' is identified, mark as 1, otherwise 0. *'''Number of Members'''Levels: ''UPDATE: written, not published, on amazon's mechanical turk site''#Copy the text in the Search Text into a search engine.#Click on the result that is the website Official mission statement or description of the company. If there (if mission does not exist a listing on the first three pages, mark as DNE.)#Look for the link *''' ''Approach:'' ''Members' If not explicitly stated mission statement, will include "About" or statements on main page#'Residents', usually they are under the links 'CommunitySpecific Industry', 'Membership', 'Our Space' or (spec_industry)'The Space'.#Count the number of members#If the link or section of *''' ''MembersLevels:' is not found, go the 'Community' and 'Coworking' and look for the description on number of startups/founders/members Industry included in the community. Record the number.statement (no aggregation)#If number of members cannot be identified using above steps, record DNE. *'''Sponsors and Partners''Approach:''':''UPDATE: written*Based on Mission Statement, not published, on amazonaggregated#'s mechanical turk site''#Copy the text in the Search Text into Price for a search engine.space/office''' ''(price_space)''#Click on the result that is the website of the company. If there does not exist a listing on the first three pages*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Two prices one for shared, mark as DNE.other for private#Look for the link or mention of *'''Sponsors' or 'PartnersApproach:', many times of which is often under the section of 'About', 'Community', or related sectionsUses google methodology with key terms and URL[[Category: Internal]]#If sponsors or partners can be found mark as 1 and list them, otherwise mark as 0.[[Internal Classification: Legacy| ]]
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=List of Variables=For a more information on Mechanical Turks in general, -depth of the variables and procedure please see : [[Mechanical Turk (Tool)Hubs: Hubs Scorecard]]. This page will reflect the variables being collected separated into three categories. Each variable will include a breakdown of levels being collected if the definition is not trivial and an approximate approach.
'''UPDATE (As of Week of 7/1125'''===Group 1==='''Variables Difficult to Obtain'''#'''Founding Date''' ''(date_founded)''#*''' ''Difficulty: uploaded and published '' ''' Finding date based on amazonour strategies#*''' ''New Approach:'' '''s mechanical turk site#*#Whois. Given the time cost to either record number net Date#*#Factavia/other press release searches #'''Multiple locations within city + Franchise''' (as of tweets in a month now just addresses) ''(multi_address)''#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Company or look up more than 10 tweets, we decided to establishment level will impact measurements#*''' ''New Approach:'' ''' Will record the date of the last 10th tweetall addresses at company level#'''Onsite Venture Capital v. Angel Investors''' (e.g. Using a sample of ~10 companies, We noticed minimal differences in data observations among using 10,20, # and 30 tweetsAssets Under Management) ''(onsite_Vc_bin)/(onsite_vc_list)'' ''(onsite_angel_bin)/etc.''#Copy the text in the Search Text into a search engine.*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary, list of investors#Click on result from twitter.com with the company name. If the link *''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Hub website usually does not appear on the first 3 pages, record DNE for both outputsinclude investors#Record the company*''' ''New Approach:'' '''s Twitter Handle into Twitter Handle#Record the date (MM/DD*#Google key terms with address of Hub#*#Start with partners and use google/YY) of that tweet for Twitter Activity. If there are less than 10 tweets, record DNE.crunchbase
===Group 2===
'''Variables Comfortable, Not Complete''' (rough order of most difficult to least difficult)
#'''Onsite accelerator''' ''(onsite_accel_bin)/(onsite_accel_cnt)/(onsite_accel_list)''
#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary, count, list
#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Usually not a list, which requires more scrubbing as many other variables just require us to find one page on a website.
#*''' ''Approach:'' '''
#*#Google searches and procedure to use on website yields decent results
#*#Similar procedure to onsite investors
#'''Size (# members)''' ''(num_members)''
#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Count for companies (currently not planning to include list of companies given that some potential hubs have 200+ members)
#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Some companies don’t list all members - only selective ones-, others do not separate current members and alumni, and some just write "we have served more than 120 startups..."
#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' For companies that have a list, we will count. For those with select members, we will count those they listed and try to see if there is a comment about how many they have. For those that just have a statement "with over," we will write the number and + (e.g. "120+).
#'''Office hours investors''' and '''Office hours mentor/advisors''' ''(OH_bin)/(OH_inv_bin)/(OH_inv_list)/etc.''
#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary for OH, binary for two separate OH, list of names/descriptions of OH
#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Some companies do not list who OH are with, not always obvious if investor, mentor, or advisor, sometimes not clear if mentor is investor/future investor
#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Google approach to get to OH pages and then lookup key words in description to separate out
#'''Onsite temporary workshops and Networking Meetups''' (Count) ''(onsite_temp_events_bin)/(onsite_temp_workshop_bin)/(onsite_temp_workshop_cnt)/etc.''
#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary for do they exist, count for each
#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Difficult for Turkers to differentiate between these two and also other potential events (e.g. symposiums)
#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Uses key search terms (e.g. Java/etc.) to separate out workshops and key terms (e.g. lunch/happy hour) for networking meetings
#'''Onsite code school''' and '''Curriculum''' ''(onsite_long_term_courses)/(onsite_code_school_bin)''
#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary for do they exist, binary for each
#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Difficult for Turkers to differentiate between long-term coding programs for individuals and curriculum for startups
#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Uses key search terms (e.g. specific code schools) to separate out known code schools and also to look into key terms (e.g. leadership) for curriculum
#'''Sponsors/Partners''' (University, Corporate) ''(sponsors_cnt)/(sponsors_list)/etc.''
#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Count, list of sponsors/partners (if exist), separate columns for university and corporate
#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies will list sponsors, partnesrs, or either. Not always clear the difference among sponsors, partners, investors.
#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Use two different levels and use of google search, then if list exists, separate by "college"/"university" and rest
#'''Alumni Network''' ''(alumni_bin)/(alumni_list)''
#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary, list
#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies list alumni, some only list "selected"
#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Include all that have lists
#'''Size (sqft)''' ''(size_sqft)''
#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Number in sqft
#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies list square feet online
#*''' ''Approach:'' '''
#*#Google search with key words
#*#If results do not appear, use of press releases is possible
#'''Onsite Mentors''' ''(onsite_mentors_bin)/(onsite_mentors_cnt)/(onsite_mentors_list)''
#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Count and list of mentors (if exist)
#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies list mentors - bigger issue is onsite investors
#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Use two different levels and use of google search
