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102/1727/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Created personal wiki page as well as work log; Read about *Continued cleaning up the cohort data in the research project to which I have been assigned; Wrote a short summary of what I believe it is Excel file. Finished Cohort Number and included some helpful linksYear.
103/181/2016 42017 2:00-65:00 pm: Met *Worked with research partner Ben and Shrey who filled me in on where we are with the project; Began looking on websites of certain accelerators to pull data from SDC for how all VC funded companies and normalized it to determine their cohorts and listed these steps on the wikiput it in an Excel document.
103/193/2016 22017 1:00-52:00 30 pm: Finished looking on the remaining accelerator websites *Worked with Ben to try and wrote the steps on determining how to manually locate repeat down the cohortsVC data without it going too far.
103/206/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: Met *Worked with Peter and Christy Shrey to discuss finish cleaning the possibility of creating a web crawler that will pull cohort data from individual accelerator sites. It is ready to be run through the matcher with Ben.
103/248/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Brainstormed *Matched the VC Data with Albert the list of Cohort Companies and Julia about changes to the category name for SBDE. Spoke to Ed about full scope got one list of accelerator projectall cohort companies that have received VC funding.
103/2620/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: *Began searching for more databases including lists gathering the URLs of all accelerators as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching for characteristics that identify accelerators on their websitesin a TextPad file called Accelerator URLs. Participated in the SQL training session.
103/2722/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Continued searching *Made tables in Terminal for Accelerator companies matched with VC companies and for relevant lists of accelerators to include on our page. Added some links that have high potential under the tab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches)Cohort Data.
103/3127/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: Began constructing a list *Compiled all URLs of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator on its website. This is in an effort to allow into a crawler to crawl through many Google searches and identify acceleratorsTextPad file.
113/29/2017 1/2016 4:00-65:00 pm: Continued looking for variables *Worked on the matched data with Ben. Next time I will run the RegEx code that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched will filter the URLs, and I will look through numerous the duplicates where two different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databasesVC backed company names matched to one cohort company name.
113/231/2016 22017 1:00-42:00 pm: Continued combing *Ran the code for accelerator urls which are ready to be run through websites of numerous accelerators, well-known and other, the wayback machine in order to get the hopes of finding identifying variablesstart dates. Also began looking through vc backed company names.
114/3/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Finalized my list of variables that could be used to distinguish the websites of accelerators*Continued looking through double matched VC companies. Slightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevanceLearned more SQL from Ed.
114/75/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Began compiling *Made the list of all accelerators. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new databasefinal vc percentage table on terminal and for next time I will collect missing accelerator data.
114/87/2016 42017 1:00-63:00 pm: Worked with Shrey and Ben *Began collecting cohort data for big accelerators that were missing from our list in order to compile all of add it to our accelerator databases into one long final list on Textpadof cohort companies.
114/910/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Continued formulating a database *Finished gathering cohort company names for all big accelerators that we were missing and all of put them into the available info givenCleaned Cohort Companies Excel file. Ben is looking through Crunchbase data in order to possibly find more missing accelerators.
114/1014/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: Worked with Shrey *Began working through "Crunchbase Potential Accelerators" textpad that may contain missing accelerators and Peter in order wrote notes on the ones that I was able to go through. Need to develop a crawler for f6sfinish this textpad before moving forward.
114/1417/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: Began sorting *Continued going through potential Crunchbase accelerators that we may have missed. Talked to Ed about getting a more comprehensive list from Excel file and by the end of the semester have the Seed-DB database in an Excel documenttables and data collected and done.
114/1519/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: Conducted some Google searches in *Worked with Jeemin to generate an attempt entire list of potential US accelerators from crunchbase. Worked to find more accelerator databases. Began looking through Executive Orders searching for keywordsa way to classify accelerators just based on their descriptions.
114/1621/2016 22017: 1:00-54:00 pm: Completed searching *Continued working through Executive Ordersthe list identifying accelerators that we do not have. Ramee and Juliette are now helping us gather cohort data for those missing accelerators.
114/1724/2016 42017 9:00-61:00 pm: Continued working *Updated Veeral on Google searches for current state accelerator of project. Typed up a to-do liston the discussion wiki for Veeral. Looked through f6s for common words that can be used Got new cohort data on an accelerator and added it to distinguish accelerators once we have finalized the crawlerExcel file.
115/213/2016 22017 11:00-51:00 pm: Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel *Talked to Ed and Anne about future report. Continued working through list of crunchbase potential 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. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrowLast day of work for this semester.
11/22/===Fall 2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Listed out all steps for extracting cohort information from the ten randomly chosen accelerators. Worked with Peter in order to build a tool that will search all of the HTMLs and attempt to identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic information.===
1110/2817/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Merged *Created personal wiki page as well as work log; Read about the F6S accelerator list with our other list, then posted research project to which I have been assigned; Wrote a short summary of what I believe it on the project page. Learned process for accelerator data extraction from Ed.is and included some helpful links
1110/2918/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: *Met with research partner Shrey who filled me in on where we are with the project; Began process looking on websites of collecting data from the 20 certain accelerators that I am responsible for.how to determine their cohorts and listed these steps on the wiki
1110/3019/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued collecting data from accelerators. *Finished 15/20looking on the remaining accelerator websites and wrote the steps on determining how to manually locate the cohorts.
1210/120/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Continued collecting *Met with Peter and Christy to discuss the possibility of creating a web crawler that will pull data from accelerators. Finished original 20, picked up a new set of 20individual accelerator sites.
1210/224/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued collecting data from accelerators*Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to the category name for SBDE. Finished next 20Spoke to Ed about full scope of accelerator project.
1210/825/2016 14:00-36:00 pm: Completed collecting data from *Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators , as well as different variables to search for the semesterin terms of accelerators, startups, cohorts, etc.
110/1826/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued collecting data *Began searching for accelerator project. Helped Catherine draft tweets more databases including lists of accelerators as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching for the McNair Center twitter account.characteristics that identify accelerators on their websites
110/2027/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: *Continued collecting data searching for relevant lists of accelerators to include on acceleratorsour page. Attended McNair Center team meetingAdded some links that have high potential under the tab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches).
110/2331/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: *Began combing through constructing a list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator list, determining which accelerators are still missing data and documenting these on its website. This is in an effort to allow a TextPad file. Finished crawler to crawl through #115many Google searches and identify accelerators.
111/272/2017 12016 2:00-34:00 pm: *Continued going combing through accelerator list. Left off on #226 with Shreywebsites of numerous accelerators, well-known and other, in the hopes of finding identifying variables.
111/203/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Continued going through accelerator *Finalized my listof variables that could be used to distinguish the websites of accelerators. Finished through #440Slightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevance.
211/17/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Finished going through *Began compiling the list of all accelerators looking for incomplete files. Began completing the files that were not doneCreated a new TextPad document with information from a new database.
211/38/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: Continued working *Worked with Shrey and Ben in order to compile all of our accelerator databases into one long list on completing accelerator filesTextpad.
211/69/2017 12016 2:00-45:30 00 pm: Finished data set of *Continued formulating a database for all 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 pmavailable info given.
211/810/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Finished formatting through #137. Spoke *Worked with Ed about projectShrey and Peter in order to develop a crawler for f6s.
211/1314/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Completed formatting for all accelerator text files*Began sorting the Seed-DB database in an Excel document.
211/15/2017 32016 4:00-56:00 pm: Made copy of the completed data set*Conducted some Google searches in an attempt to find more accelerator databases. Spoke to Ed about future steps to take Began looking through Executive Orders searching for project including gathering founder data and obtaining the crunchbase apikeywords.
211/1716/2017 12016 2:00-35:00 pm: Went *Completed searching 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 accessExecutive Orders.
211/2017/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Filled out another application *Continued working on Google searches for Crunchbase research access; Found the first source state accelerator list. Looked through f6s for common words that can be used to distinguish accelerators once we have finalized the incubator project on angelcrawler.co, will hopefully work with Peter to make a crawler similar to f6s
211/2221/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Pulled data *Randomly chose 10 accelerators from SDC for Ed Excel list of accelerators on the RDP. Went through each website and normalized it. Learned how listed the steps that I took in order to use SDC and determine whether or not the normalizerwebsite belonged to an accelerator. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrow.
211/2422/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: Finished cleaning up *Listed out all steps for extracting cohort information from the cohort data for Y-combinator on ten randomly chosen accelerators. Worked with Peter in order to build a tool that will search all of the Final Cohort Excel SpreadsheetHTMLs and attempt to identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic information.
211/2728/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued cleaning up *Merged the cohort data in F6S accelerator list with our other list, then posted it on the Excel fileproject page. Finished Cohort Number and YearLearned process for accelerator data extraction from Ed.
311/129/2017 22016 4:00-56:00 pm: Worked with Ben and Shrey to pull *Began process of collecting data from SDC the 20 accelerators that I am responsible for all VC funded companies and normalized it to put it in an Excel document.
311/330/2017 12016 2:00-25:30 00 pm: Worked with Ben to try and repeat down the VC *Continued collecting data without it going too farfrom accelerators. Finished 15/20.
312/61/2017 12016 4:00-46:00 pm: Worked with Shrey to finish cleaning the cohort *Continued collecting datafrom accelerators. It is ready to be run through the matcher with BenFinished original 20, picked up a new set of 20.
312/82/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Matched the VC Data with the list of Cohort Companies and got one list of all cohort companies that have received VC funding*Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished next 20.
312/108/2017 122016 1:00-23:00 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 *Completed collecting data we have accumulated on from accelerators for the RDPsemester.
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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.
3/10/25/2016 42017 12:00-62:00 pm: Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators, *Put a write-up on the top of the Accelerator wiki page detailing where we are in the project currently as well as different variables to search for in terms of accelerators, startups, cohorts, etcwhat data we have accumulated on the RDP.
11/1/25/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: *Continued looking for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched through accelerator listnumerous different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databases.
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