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103/176/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: Created personal wiki page as well as work log; Read about *Worked with Shrey to finish cleaning the research project cohort data. It is ready to which I have been assigned; Wrote a short summary of what I believe it is and included some helpful linksbe run through the matcher with Ben.
103/188/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Met with research partner Shrey who filled me in on where we are *Matched the VC Data with the project; Began looking on websites list of certain accelerators for how to determine their cohorts Cohort Companies and listed these steps on the wikigot one list of all cohort companies that have received VC funding.
103/20/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Met with Peter and Christy to discuss *Began gathering the possibility URLs of creating all accelerators in a web crawler that will pull data from individual accelerator sitesTextPad file called Accelerator URLs. Participated in the SQL training session.
103/2422/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Brainstormed *Made tables in Terminal for Accelerator companies matched with Albert VC companies and Julia about changes to the category name for SBDE. Spoke to Ed about full scope of accelerator projectCohort Data.
103/2527/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators, as well as different variables to search for in terms *Compiled all URLs of accelerators, startups, cohorts, etcaccelerator into a TextPad file.
103/2629/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Began searching for more databases including lists of accelerators as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching for characteristics *Worked on the matched data with Ben. Next time I will run the RegEx code that identify accelerators on their websiteswill filter the URLs, and I will look through the duplicates where two different VC backed company names matched to one cohort company name.
103/2731/2016 42017 1:00-62:00 pm: Continued searching *Ran the code for relevant lists of accelerators accelerator urls which are ready to be run through the wayback machine in order to include on our pageget the start dates. Added some links that have high potential under the tab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches)Also began looking through vc backed company names.
104/313/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Began constructing a list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator on its website*Continued looking through double matched VC companies. This is in an effort to allow a crawler to crawl through many Google searches and identify acceleratorsLearned more SQL from Ed.
114/5/2017 1/2016 4:00-65:00 pm: Continued looking *Made the final vc percentage table on terminal and for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databasesnext time I will collect missing accelerator data.
114/27/2016 22017 1:00-43:00 pm: Continued combing through websites of numerous *Began collecting cohort data for big accelerators, well-known and other, that were missing from our list in the hopes order to add it to our final list of finding identifying variablescohort companies.
114/310/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Finalized my list of variables *Finished gathering cohort company names for big accelerators that could be used to distinguish we were missing and put them into the websites of acceleratorsCleaned Cohort Companies Excel file. Slightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases Ben is looking through Crunchbase data in order of relevanceto possibly find more missing accelerators.
114/714/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: *Began compiling working through "Crunchbase Potential Accelerators" textpad that may contain missing accelerators and wrote notes on the list of all acceleratorsones that I was able to go through. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new databaseNeed to finish this textpad before moving forward.
114/817/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: Worked with Shrey *Continued going through potential Crunchbase accelerators that we may have missed. Talked to Ed about getting a more comprehensive list from Excel file and Ben in order to compile all by the end of our accelerator databases into one long list on Textpadthe semester have the tables and data collected and done.
114/919/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: Continued formulating *Worked with Jeemin to generate an entire list of potential US accelerators from crunchbase. Worked to find a database for all way to classify accelerators and all of the available info givenjust based on their descriptions.
114/1021/2016 42017: 1:00-64:00 pm: Worked with Shrey *Continued working through the list identifying accelerators that we do not have. Ramee and Peter in order to develop a crawler Juliette are now helping us gather cohort data for f6sthose missing accelerators.
114/1424/2016 22017 9:00-51:00 pm: Began sorting *Updated Veeral on current state of project. Typed up a to-do list on the Seed-DB database in discussion wiki for Veeral. Got new cohort data on an accelerator and added it to Excel documentfile.
115/153/2016 42017 11:00-61:00 pm: Conducted some Google searches in an attempt *Talked to find more accelerator databasesEd and Anne about future report. Began looking Continued working through Executive Orders searching list of crunchbase potential accelerators. Last day of work for keywordsthis semester.
11/16/===Fall 2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Completed searching through Executive Orders.===
1110/17/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Continued working on Google searches for state accelerator list. Looked through f6s for common words that can be used *Created personal wiki page as well as work log; Read about the research project to distinguish accelerators once we which I have finalized the crawler.been assigned; Wrote a short summary of what I believe it is and included some helpful links
1110/2118/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel list *Met with research partner Shrey who filled me in on where we are with the project; Began looking on websites of certain accelerators on the RDP. Went through each website for how to determine their cohorts and listed the these steps that I took in order to determine whether or not on the website belonged to an accelerator. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrow.wiki
1110/2219/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Listed out all *Finished looking on the remaining accelerator websites and wrote the steps for extracting cohort information from the ten randomly chosen accelerators. Worked with Peter in order on determining how to build a tool that will search all of manually locate the HTMLs and attempt to identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic informationcohorts.
1110/2820/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Merged the F6S accelerator list *Met with our other list, then posted it on Peter and Christy to discuss the project page. Learned process for accelerator possibility of creating a web crawler that will pull data extraction from Edindividual accelerator sites.
1110/2924/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Began process of collecting data from *Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to the 20 accelerators that I am responsible category name forSBDE. Spoke to Ed about full scope of accelerator project.
1110/3025/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Continued collecting data from *Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators, as well as different variables to search for in terms of accelerators. Finished 15/20, startups, cohorts, etc.
1210/126/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Continued collecting data from *Began searching for more databases including lists of accelerators. Finished original 20, picked up a new set as well as some characteristics of 20.those accelerators; Began searching for characteristics that identify accelerators on their websites
1210/227/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: *Continued collecting data from searching for relevant lists of acceleratorsto include on our page. Finished next 20Added some links that have high potential under the tab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches).
1210/831/2016 12:00-35:00 pm: Completed 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 for the semester.
111/202/2017 12016 2:00-34:00 pm: *Continued collecting data on combing through websites of numerous accelerators. Attended McNair Center team meeting, well-known and other, in the hopes of finding identifying variables.
111/233/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Began combing through accelerator *Finalized my list, determining which of variables that could be used to distinguish the websites of accelerators are still missing data and documenting these . Slightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in a TextPad file. Finished through #115order of relevance.
111/257/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued looking through accelerator *Began compiling the listof all accelerators. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new database.
111/278/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: Continued going through *Worked with Shrey and Ben in order to compile all of our accelerator databases into one long list. Left off on #226 with ShreyTextpad.
111/209/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: *Continued going through accelerator list. Finished through #440formulating a database for all accelerators and all of the available info given.
211/110/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Finished going through the list of accelerators looking *Worked with Shrey and Peter in order to develop a crawler for incomplete files. Began completing the files that were not donef6s.
211/314/2017 12016 2:00-35:00 pm: Continued working on completing accelerator files*Began sorting the Seed-DB database in an Excel document.
211/615/2017 12016 4:00-46:30 00 pm: Finished data set of accelerators*Conducted some Google searches in an attempt to find more accelerator databases. Began going looking through and making sure that all text files and cohort files are of the same format so Peter can easily pull the information. Left Executive Orders searching for 30 minutes for an interview from 2:30-3:00 pmkeywords.
211/816/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Finished formatting *Completed searching through #137. Spoke with Ed about projectExecutive Orders.
211/1317/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Completed formatting *Continued working on Google searches for all state accelerator text fileslist. Looked through f6s for common words that can be used to distinguish accelerators once we have finalized the crawler.
211/1521/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Made copy *Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel list of accelerators on the completed data setRDP. Spoke to Ed about future Went through each website and listed the steps that I took in order to take for project including gathering founder data and obtaining determine whether or not the crunchbase apiwebsite belonged to an accelerator. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrow.
211/1722/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: Went through final Excel spreadsheet *Listed out all steps for extracting cohort informationfrom the ten randomly chosen accelerators. Still need Worked with Peter in order to run the crawler one more time after the completion build a tool that will search all of the editing process. Found the application for the crunchbase api which will hopefully allow us HTMLs and attempt to gain accessidentify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic information.
211/2028/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Filled out another application for Crunchbase research access; Found *Merged the first source for F6S accelerator list with our other list, then posted it on the incubator project on angelpage. Learned process for accelerator data extraction from Ed.co, will hopefully work with Peter to make a crawler similar to f6s
211/2229/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Pulled *Began process of collecting data from SDC the 20 accelerators that I am responsible for Ed and normalized it. Learned how to use SDC and the normalizer.
211/2430/2017 12016 2:00-35:00 pm: *Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished cleaning up the cohort data for Y-combinator on the Final Cohort Excel Spreadsheet15/20.
212/271/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: *Continued cleaning up the cohort collecting data in the Excel filefrom accelerators. Finished Cohort Number and Yearoriginal 20, picked up a new set of 20.
312/12/2017 2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Worked with Ben and Shrey to pull *Continued collecting data from SDC for all VC funded companies and normalized it to put it in an Excel documentaccelerators. Finished next 20.
312/38/2017 2016 1:00-23:30 00 pm: Worked with Ben to try and repeat down *Completed collecting data from accelerators for the VC data without it going too farsemester.
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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.
3/10/19/2016 22017 12:00-52:00 pm: Finished looking *Put a write-up on the remaining accelerator websites and wrote top of the Accelerator wiki page detailing where we are in the steps project currently as well as what data we have accumulated on determining how to manually locate the cohortsRDP.
11/1/18/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: *Continued collecting data looking for accelerator projectvariables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Helped Catherine draft tweets for the McNair Center twitter accountSearched through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databases.
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