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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.
103/178/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Created personal wiki page as well as work log; Read about *Matched the VC Data with the research project to which I have been assigned; Wrote a short summary list of what I believe it is Cohort Companies and included some helpful linksgot one list of all cohort companies that have received VC funding.
3/10/18/2016 42017 12:00-62:00 pm: Met with research partner Shrey who filled me in *Put a write-up on the top of the Accelerator wiki page detailing where we are with in the project; Began looking on websites of certain accelerators for how to determine their cohorts and listed these steps currently as well as what data we have accumulated on the wikiRDP.
103/1920/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Finished looking on the remaining accelerator websites and wrote *Began gathering the steps on determining how to manually locate URLs of all accelerators in a TextPad file called Accelerator URLs. Participated in the cohortsSQL training session.
103/2022/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Met *Made tables in Terminal for Accelerator companies matched with Peter VC companies and Christy to discuss the possibility of creating a web crawler that will pull data from individual accelerator sitesfor Cohort Data.
103/2427/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to the category name for SBDE. Spoke to Ed about full scope *Compiled all URLs of accelerator projectinto a TextPad file.
103/2529/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Brainstormed *Worked on the matched data with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within acceleratorsBen. Next time I will run the RegEx code that will filter the URLs, as well as and I will look through the duplicates where two different variables VC backed company names matched to search for in terms of accelerators, startups, cohorts, etcone cohort company name.
103/2631/2016 22017 1:00-52:00 pm: Began searching for more databases including lists of accelerators as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching *Ran the code for characteristics that identify accelerators on their websitesaccelerator urls which are ready to be run through the wayback machine in order to get the start dates. Also began looking through vc backed company names.
104/273/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: *Continued searching for relevant lists of accelerators to include on our pagelooking through double matched VC companies. Added some links that have high potential under the tab (Obtained Learned more SQL from List of Accelerators or various Google searches)Ed.
104/315/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Began constructing a list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator *Made the final vc percentage table on its website. This is in an effort to allow a crawler to crawl through many Google searches terminal and identify acceleratorsfor next time I will collect missing accelerator data.
114/7/2017 1/2016 4:00-63:00 pm: Continued looking *Began collecting cohort data for variables big accelerators that could identify accelerators were missing from their websites. Searched through numerous different websites our list in order to add it to our final list of accelerators obtained from our current databasescohort companies.
114/210/2016 22017 1:00-45:00 pm: Continued combing through websites of numerous *Finished gathering cohort company names for big accelerators, well-known that we were missing and other, put them into the Cleaned Cohort Companies Excel file. Ben is looking through Crunchbase data in the hopes of finding identifying variablesorder to possibly find more missing accelerators.
114/314/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: Finalized my list of variables *Began working through "Crunchbase Potential Accelerators" textpad that may contain missing accelerators and wrote notes on the ones that could be used I was able to distinguish the websites of acceleratorsgo through. Slightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevanceNeed to finish this textpad before moving forward.
114/717/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: Began compiling the list of all *Continued going through potential Crunchbase acceleratorsthat we may have missed. Created Talked to Ed about getting a new TextPad document with information more comprehensive list from a new databaseExcel file and by the end of the semester have the tables and data collected and done.
114/819/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: *Worked with Shrey and Ben in order Jeemin to compile all generate an entire list of our accelerator databases into one long list potential US accelerators from crunchbase. Worked to find a way to classify accelerators just based on Textpadtheir descriptions.
114/921/2016 22017: 1:00-54:00 pm: *Continued formulating a database working through the list identifying accelerators that we do not have. Ramee and Juliette are now helping us gather cohort data for all those missing accelerators and all of the available info given.
114/1024/2016 42017 9:00-61:00 pm: Worked with Shrey *Updated Veeral on current state of project. Typed up a to-do list on the discussion wiki for Veeral. Got new cohort data on an accelerator and Peter in order added it to develop a crawler for f6sExcel file.
115/143/2016 22017 11:00-51:00 pm: Began sorting the Seed-DB database in an Excel document*Talked to Ed and Anne about future report. Continued working through list of crunchbase potential accelerators. Last day of work for this semester.
11/15/===Fall 2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Conducted some Google searches in an attempt to find more accelerator databases. Began looking through Executive Orders searching for keywords.===
1110/1617/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Completed searching through Executive Orders.*Created personal wiki page as well as work log; Read about the research project to which I have been assigned; Wrote a short summary of what I believe it is and included some helpful links
1110/1718/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Continued working *Met with research partner Shrey who filled me in on where we are with the project; Began looking on Google searches websites of certain accelerators for state accelerator list. Looked through f6s for common words that can be used how to distinguish accelerators once we have finalized determine their cohorts and listed these steps on the crawler.wiki
1110/2119/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel list of accelerators *Finished looking on the RDP. Went through each website remaining accelerator websites and listed wrote the steps that I took in order on determining how to determine whether or not manually locate the website belonged to an accelerator. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrowcohorts.
1110/2220/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Listed out all steps for extracting cohort information from the ten randomly chosen accelerators. Worked *Met with Peter in order and Christy to build discuss the possibility of creating a tool web crawler that will search all of the HTMLs and attempt to identify each one as an pull data from individual accelerator as well as extract some basic informationsites.
1110/2824/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Merged the F6S accelerator list *Brainstormed with our other list, then posted it on Albert and Julia about changes to the project pagecategory name for SBDE. Learned process for Spoke to Ed about full scope of accelerator data extraction from Edproject.
1110/2925/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Began process *Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators, as well as different variables to search for in terms of collecting data from the 20 accelerators that I am responsible for, startups, cohorts, etc.
1110/3026/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued collecting data from *Began searching for more databases including lists of accelerators as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching for characteristics that identify accelerators. Finished 15/20.on their websites
1210/127/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: *Continued collecting data from searching for relevant lists of acceleratorsto include on our page. Finished original 20, picked up a new set Added some links that have high potential under the tab (Obtained from List of 20Accelerators or various Google searches).
1210/231/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued collecting data from *Began constructing a list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator on its website. This is in an effort to allow a crawler to crawl through many Google searches and identify accelerators. Finished next 20.
1211/81/2016 14:00-36:00 pm: Completed collecting data *Continued looking for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched through numerous different websites of accelerators for the semesterobtained from our current databases.
111/182/2017 12016 2:00-54:00 pm: *Continued collecting data for accelerator project. Helped Catherine draft tweets for combing through websites of numerous accelerators, well-known and other, in the McNair Center twitter accounthopes of finding identifying variables.
111/203/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: Continued collecting data on *Finalized my list of variables that could be used to distinguish the websites of accelerators. Attended McNair Center team meetingSlightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevance.
111/237/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: *Began combing through accelerator compiling the list, determining which of all accelerators are still missing data and documenting these in . Created a new TextPad file. Finished through #115document with information from a new database.
111/258/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Continued looking through *Worked with Shrey and Ben in order to compile all of our accelerator databases into one long liston Textpad.
111/279/2017 12016 2:00-35:00 pm: *Continued going through accelerator list. Left off on #226 with Shreyformulating a database for all accelerators and all of the available info given.
111/2010/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Continued going through accelerator list. Finished through #440*Worked with Shrey and Peter in order to develop a crawler for f6s.
211/114/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Finished going through the list of accelerators looking for incomplete files. *Began completing sorting the files that were not doneSeed-DB database in an Excel document.
211/315/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: Continued working on completing *Conducted some Google searches in an attempt to find more accelerator filesdatabases. Began looking through Executive Orders searching for keywords.
211/616/2017 12016 2:00-45:30 00 pm: Finished data set of accelerators. Began going *Completed searching 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 pmExecutive Orders.
211/817/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Finished formatting *Continued working on Google searches for state accelerator list. Looked through #137. Spoke with Ed about projectf6s for common words that can be used to distinguish accelerators once we have finalized the crawler.
211/1321/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Completed formatting for all *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 text files. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrow.
211/1522/2017 32016 4:00-56:00 pm: Made copy of *Listed out all steps for extracting cohort information from the completed data setten randomly chosen accelerators. Spoke Worked with Peter in order to Ed about future steps build a tool that will search all of the HTMLs and attempt to take for project including gathering founder data and obtaining the crunchbase apiidentify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic information.
211/1728/2017 12016 2:00-35:00 pm: Went through final Excel spreadsheet for cohort information. Still need to run *Merged the crawler one more time after F6S accelerator list with our other list, then posted it on the completion of the editing project page. Learned process. Found the application for the crunchbase api which will hopefully allow us to gain accessaccelerator data extraction from Ed.
211/2029/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Filled out another application for Crunchbase research access; Found *Began process of collecting data from the first source 20 accelerators that I am responsible for the incubator project on angel.co, will hopefully work with Peter to make a crawler similar to f6s
211/2230/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Pulled *Continued collecting data from SDC for Ed and normalized itaccelerators. Learned how to use SDC and the normalizerFinished 15/20.
212/241/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: *Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished cleaning original 20, picked up the cohort data for Y-combinator on the Final Cohort Excel Spreadsheeta new set of 20.
12/2/27/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: *Continued cleaning up the cohort collecting data in the Excel filefrom accelerators. Finished Cohort Number and Yearnext 20.
312/8/2016 1/2017 2:00-53:00 pm: Worked with Ben and Shrey to pull *Completed collecting data from SDC accelerators for all VC funded companies and normalized it to put it in an Excel documentthe semester.
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