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103/1729/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Created personal wiki page as well as work log; Read about *Worked on the research project to which matched data with Ben. Next time I have been assigned; Wrote a short summary of what will run the RegEx code that will filter the URLs, and I believe it is and included some helpful linkswill look through the duplicates where two different VC backed company names matched to one cohort company name.
103/1831/2016 42017 1:00-62:00 pm: Met with research partner Shrey who filled me in on where we *Ran the code for accelerator urls which are with ready to be run through the project; Began looking on websites of certain accelerators for how wayback machine in order to determine their cohorts and listed these steps on get the wikistart dates. Also began looking through vc backed company names.
104/193/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Finished *Continued looking on the remaining accelerator websites and wrote the steps on determining how to manually locate the cohortsthrough double matched VC companies. Learned more SQL from Ed.
104/205/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Met with Peter *Made the final vc percentage table on terminal and Christy to discuss the possibility of creating a web crawler that for next time I will pull collect missing accelerator data from individual accelerator sites.
104/247/2016 22017 1:00-53:00 pm: Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes *Began collecting cohort data for big accelerators that were missing from our list in order to the category name for SBDE. Spoke add it to Ed about full scope our final list of accelerator projectcohort companies.
104/2614/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: *Began searching for more databases including lists of accelerators as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching for characteristics working through "Crunchbase Potential Accelerators" textpad that identify may contain missing accelerators and wrote notes on their websitesthe ones that I was able to go through. Need to finish this textpad before moving forward.
104/2717/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: *Continued searching for relevant lists of going through potential Crunchbase accelerators to include on our page. Added some links that we may have high potential under missed. Talked to Ed about getting a more comprehensive list from Excel file and by the tab (Obtained from List end of Accelerators or various Google searches)the semester have the tables and data collected and done.
104/3119/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: Began constructing a *Worked with Jeemin to generate an entire list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator on its websitepotential US accelerators from crunchbase. This is in an effort Worked to allow find a crawler way to crawl through many Google searches and identify classify acceleratorsjust based on their descriptions.
114/21/2017: 1/2016 4:00-64:00 pm: *Continued looking for variables working through the list identifying accelerators that could identify accelerators from their websiteswe do not have. Searched through numerous different websites of Ramee and Juliette are now helping us gather cohort data for those missing accelerators obtained from our current databases.
114/224/2016 22017 9:00-41:00 pm: Continued combing through websites *Updated Veeral on current state of numerous accelerators, wellproject. Typed up a to-known do list on the discussion wiki for Veeral. Got new cohort data on an accelerator and other, in the hopes of finding identifying variablesadded it to Excel file.
115/3/2016 42017 11:00-61:00 pm: Finalized my *Talked to Ed and Anne about future report. Continued working through list of variables that could be used to distinguish the websites of crunchbase potential accelerators. Slightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order Last day of relevancework for this semester.
11/7/===Fall 2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Began compiling the list of all accelerators. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new database.===
1110/817/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Worked with Shrey and Ben in order *Created personal wiki page as well as work log; Read about the research project to compile all which I have been assigned; Wrote a short summary of our accelerator databases into one long list on Textpad.what I believe it is and included some helpful links
1110/918/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Continued formulating a database *Met with research partner Shrey who filled me in on where we are with the project; Began looking on websites of certain accelerators for all accelerators how to determine their cohorts and all of listed these steps on the available info given.wiki
1110/1019/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Worked with Shrey *Finished looking on the remaining accelerator websites and Peter in order wrote the steps on determining how to develop a crawler for f6smanually locate the cohorts.
1110/1420/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Began sorting *Met with Peter and Christy to discuss the Seed-DB database in an Excel documentpossibility of creating a web crawler that will pull data from individual accelerator sites.
1110/1524/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Conducted some Google searches in an attempt *Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to the category name for SBDE. Spoke to find more Ed about full scope of accelerator databases. Began looking through Executive Orders searching for keywordsproject.
1110/1625/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Completed searching through Executive Orders*Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators, as well as different variables to search for in terms of accelerators, startups, cohorts, etc.
1110/1726/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Continued working on Google searches *Began searching for state accelerator list. Looked through f6s more databases including lists of accelerators as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching for common words characteristics that can be used to distinguish identify accelerators once we have finalized the crawler.on their websites
1110/2127/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel list *Continued searching for relevant lists of accelerators to include on the RDPour page. Went through each website and listed Added some links that have high potential under the steps that I took in order to determine whether tab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or not the website belonged to an accelerator. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrowvarious Google searches).
1110/2231/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Listed out all steps for extracting cohort information from the ten randomly chosen accelerators*Began constructing a list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator on its website. Worked with Peter This is in order an effort to build allow a tool that will search all of the HTMLs crawler to crawl through many Google searches and attempt to identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic informationaccelerators.
1211/17/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Continued collecting data from *Began compiling the list of all accelerators. Finished original 20, picked up Created a new set of 20TextPad document with information from a new database.
1211/28/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished next 20*Worked with Shrey and Ben in order to compile all of our accelerator databases into one long list on Textpad.
1211/89/2016 12:00-35:00 pm: Completed collecting data from *Continued formulating a database for all accelerators for and all of the semesteravailable info given.
111/1810/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Continued collecting data for accelerator project. Helped Catherine draft tweets *Worked with Shrey and Peter in order to develop a crawler for the McNair Center twitter accountf6s.
111/2014/2017 12016 2:00-35:00 pm: Continued collecting data on accelerators. Attended McNair Center team meeting*Began sorting the Seed-DB database in an Excel document.
111/2315/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Began combing through *Conducted some Google searches in an attempt to find more accelerator list, determining which accelerators are still missing data and documenting these in a TextPad filedatabases. Finished Began looking through #115Executive Orders searching for keywords.
111/2516/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued looking *Completed searching through accelerator listExecutive Orders.
111/2717/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: *Continued going through working on Google searches for state accelerator list. Left off on #226 with ShreyLooked through f6s for common words that can be used to distinguish accelerators once we have finalized the crawler.
111/2021/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued going *Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel list of accelerators on the RDP. Went through each website and listed the steps that I took in order to determine whether or not the website belonged to an accelerator list. Finished through #440Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrow.
211/122/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Finished going through *Listed out all steps for extracting cohort information from the list of ten randomly chosen accelerators looking for incomplete files. Began completing Worked with Peter in order to build a tool that will search all of the files that were not doneHTMLs and attempt to identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic information.
211/328/2017 12016 2:00-35:00 pm: Continued working *Merged the F6S accelerator list with our other list, then posted it on completing the project page. Learned process for accelerator filesdata extraction from Ed.
211/629/2017 12016 4:00-46:30 00 pm: Finished *Began process of collecting data set of from the 20 accelerators. Began going through and making sure that all text files and cohort files are of the same format so Peter can easily pull the information. Left I am responsible for 30 minutes for an interview from 2:30-3:00 pm.
211/830/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: *Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished formatting through #137. Spoke with Ed about project15/20.
212/131/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Completed formatting for all accelerator text files*Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished original 20, picked up a new set of 20.
212/178/2017 2016 1:00-3:00 pm: Went through final Excel spreadsheet for cohort information. Still need to run the crawler one more time after the completion of the editing process. Found the application *Completed collecting data from accelerators for the crunchbase api which will hopefully allow us to gain accesssemester.
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===Fall 2017===
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[[Category:Matthew Ringheanu]] [[Work LogLogs]][[Category:InternalMatthew Ringheanu (Work Log)|(log page)]] 9/11/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Spoke to Ed about the project going forward. Organized the current updated data for our project. 9/12/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Began going through the Cleaned Cohort Data Excel file and found a few problems with it. Will continue the cleaning process for the rest of the week. 9/13/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Sorted through Cleaned Cohort Data and finalized our List of Accelerators. We can begin the process of creating our PercentVC table. 9/14/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Completely finalized our dataset of accelerators and startups. Met with Michelle Passo to discuss objectives of the research for credit course. 9/18/2017 2:00-4:00 pm*Talked with Peter about the LinkedIn crawler data. Went through VC page that Meghana sent me. 9/19/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Completed SDC pull of updated VC Data. 9/20/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Attempted several times to run the Matcher. Cleaned our pulled data. 9/21/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Came extremely close to running the Matcher the correctly. Reviewed the final LinkedIn data from Peter. 9/25/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Finalized the matched file of accelerator companies with VC portfolio companies. Gave Ben the data on Georgia accelerators. 9/26/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Worked on finding the duplicates in our Matched file in order to have the most accurate data. 9/27/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Attempted to find a way to organize the duplicate matches. 9/28/2017 4:00-5:00 pm*Continued running through matched data in order to organize it effectively. 10/2/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Talked to Ed about next steps for the project. Practiced accessing the crunchbase database on SQL. Brushed up on SQL code. 10/3/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Searched the database for crunchbase investment information. 10/4/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Pulled the funding rounds table from SQL and matched it with the companies that have received VC funding in order to gather round dates. 10/6/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Went through the matched data. Brainstormed ways to get the dates for cohort companies going through accelerators. 10/11/2017 2:00-3:30 pm:*Looked into using the WhoIs Parser in order to find when the companies went through their accelerators. 10/12/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Discovered that the Wayback Machine will not be a good option for finding when companies went through their accelerators. Created a list of VCCompanies and their earliest round date. Included a column for the date they went through their accelerators and will fill it in when we find a good method of finding this date. 10/16/2017 2:00-3:30 pm*Continued working on sorting VCCompanies by their earliest round date. 10/17/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Worked with Ben to find a solution to our problem of data acquisition. Finalized earliest round date for VCCompanies. 10/18/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Updated our VC data with Ed's help in order to increase the accuracy and completion of our data. 10/19/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Organized all of our matched data and updated it in order to reflect the most recent SDC pull with Ed. Matched Crunchbase data with our cohort companies. 10/20/2017 2:00-3:30 pm*Generated the new list of VCCompanies as well as their earliest round dates. 10/23/2017 2:00-3:30 pm*Worked on sorting out the discrepancies in our matched data. 10/24/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Went through list of VCCompanies and began adding respective accelerators in order to proceed with VCPercentage table. 10/25/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Continued going through list of VCCompanies and adding accelerators. 10/26/2017 3:30-5:30 pm*Continued going through list of VCCompanies and adding accelerators. Will have this completed on Monday. 10/30/2017 2:00-3:30 pm*Finished adding all of the accelerators to the list of VCCompanies. Added a column indicating whether or not the company went through two or more accelerators. 10/31/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Began compiling data in the column for Date Company went through Accelerator. 11/1/2017 2:00-4:00 pm*Finalized entering dates for Y Combinator cohort companies. 11/2/2017 4:00-5:30 pm*Continued entering cohort company dates into Excel file. 11/6/2017 2:00-4:00 pm*Continued entering cohort company dates into Excel file. Began compiling a list of keywords for demo day press releases. 11/7/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Finished coming up with keywords for demo day crawler. Sent the final list to Peter. 11/8/2017 2:00-3:30 pm*Spoke to Ed and organized all of our current data. 11/9/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Created a new project page called Accelerator Data and listed all relevant files as well as descriptions. 11/14/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Looked up URLs and decided whether or not the webiste was relevant. 11/15/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Created SQL database entitled "acceleratordata" and began creating tables from folder of All Relevant Files. 11/16/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Continued to input tables into SQL database. 11/20/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Cleaned text files in order to import tables into SQL database. 11/27/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Worked with Peter to find and exclude irrelevant keywords on HTML pages. Began categorizing relevant demo day pages. 11/28/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Finished inputting tables of relevant files into SQL database. 11/29/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Went through accelerator HTML URLs. Spoke with Ed about going through HTMLs and classifying based on overall and specific relevance. 12/1/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Worked through accelerator links and classified pages based on whether or not they provided relevant information about startup timing. 12/4/2017 10:00-12:00 pm*Continued running through demo day crawl URLs and scoring them based on relevance. 12/7/2017 1:00-4:30 pm*Finalized scoring of demo day URLs for the original crawl. Last day of work for this semester. </onlyinclude> ===Spring 2017=== 1/18/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Continued collecting data for accelerator project. Helped Catherine draft tweets for the McNair Center twitter account. 1/20/2017 1:00-3:00 pm*Continued collecting data on accelerators. Attended McNair Center team meeting. 1/23/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Began combing through accelerator list, determining which accelerators are still missing data and documenting these in a TextPad file. Finished through #115. 1/25/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Continued looking through accelerator list. 1/27/2017 1:00-3:00 pm*Continued going through accelerator list. Left off on #226 with Shrey. 1/20/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Continued going through accelerator list. Finished through #440. 2/1/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Finished going through the list of accelerators looking for incomplete files. Began completing the files that were not done. 2/3/2017 1:00-3:00 pm*Continued working on completing accelerator files. 2/6/2017 1:00-4:30 pm*Finished data set of accelerators. Began going through and making sure that all text files and cohort files are of the same format so Peter can easily pull the information. Left for 30 minutes for an interview from 2:30-3:00 pm. 2/8/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Finished formatting through #137. Spoke with Ed about project. 2/13/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Completed formatting for all accelerator text files. 2/15/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Made copy of the completed data set. Spoke to Ed about future steps to take for project including gathering founder data and obtaining the crunchbase api. 2/17/2017 1:00-3:00 pm*Went through final Excel spreadsheet for cohort information. Still need to run the crawler one more time after the completion of the editing process. Found the application for the crunchbase api which will hopefully allow us to gain access. 2/20/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Filled out another application for Crunchbase research access; Found the first source for the incubator project on angel.co, will hopefully work with Peter to make a crawler similar to f6s 2/22/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Pulled data from SDC for Ed and normalized it. Learned how to use SDC and the normalizer. 2/24/2017 1:00-3:00 pm*Finished cleaning up the cohort data for Y-combinator on the Final Cohort Excel Spreadsheet. 2/27/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Continued cleaning up the cohort data in the Excel file. Finished Cohort Number and Year. 3/1/2017 2:00-5:00 pm*Worked with Ben and Shrey to pull data from SDC for all VC funded companies and normalized it to put it in an Excel document. 3/3/2017 1:00-2:30 pm*Worked with Ben to try and repeat down the VC data without it going too far. 3/6/2017 1:00-4:00 pm*Worked with Shrey to finish cleaning the cohort data. It is ready to be run through the matcher with Ben. 3/8/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Matched the VC Data with the list of Cohort Companies and got one list of all cohort companies that have received VC funding. 3/10/2017 12:00-2:00 pm*Put a write-up on the top of the Accelerator wiki page detailing where we are in the project currently as well as what data we have accumulated on the RDP. 3/20/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Began gathering the URLs of all accelerators in a TextPad file called Accelerator URLs. Participated in the SQL training session. 3/22/2017 1:00-5:00 pm*Made tables in Terminal for Accelerator companies matched with VC companies and for Cohort Data. 3/27/2017 1:00-4:00 pm*Compiled all URLs of accelerator into a TextPad file.
4/10/25/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within *Finished gathering cohort company names for big accelerators, as well as different variables that we were missing and put them into the Cleaned Cohort Companies Excel file. Ben is looking through Crunchbase data in order to search for in terms of possibly find more missing accelerators, startups, cohorts, etc.
11/281/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Merged the F6S accelerator list with our other list, then posted it on the project page*Continued looking for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Learned process for accelerator data extraction Searched through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from Edour current databases.
11/292/2016 42:00-64:00 pm: Began process *Continued combing through websites of collecting data from numerous accelerators, well-known and other, in the 20 accelerators that I am responsible forhopes of finding identifying variables.
11/303/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Continued collecting data from *Finalized my list of variables that could be used to distinguish the websites of accelerators. Finished 15/20Slightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevance.
12/2/15/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Made copy of the completed *Continued collecting data setfrom accelerators. Spoke to Ed about future steps to take for project including gathering founder data and obtaining the crunchbase apiFinished next 20.
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