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[[Matthew Ringheanu]] [[Work Logs]] [[Matthew 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. 10/18/2016 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: Met 00 pm*Finished coming up with research partner Shrey who filled me 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 where we are 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 websites completing accelerator files. 2/6/2017 1:00-4:30 pm*Finished data set of certain 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 determine their cohorts use SDC and listed these steps on the wikinormalizer.

102/1924/2016 22017 1:00-53:00 pm: *Finished looking on cleaning up the remaining accelerator websites and wrote the steps cohort data for Y-combinator on determining how to manually locate the cohortsFinal Cohort Excel Spreadsheet.

102/2027/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Met with Peter and Christy to discuss *Continued cleaning up the possibility of creating a web crawler that will pull cohort data from individual accelerator sitesin the Excel file. Finished Cohort Number and Year.

103/241/2016 2017 2:00-5:00 pm: Brainstormed *Worked with Albert Ben and Julia about changes Shrey to the category name pull data from SDC for SBDE. Spoke all VC funded companies and normalized it to Ed about full scope of accelerator projectput it in an Excel document.

103/253/2016 42017 1:00-62:00 30 pm: Brainstormed *Worked with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators, as well as different variables Ben to search for in terms of accelerators, startups, cohorts, etctry and repeat down the VC data without it going too far.

103/266/2016 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 that identify accelerators on their websites*Worked with Shrey to finish cleaning the cohort data. It is ready to be run through the matcher with Ben.

103/278/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Continued searching for relevant lists *Matched the VC Data with the list of Cohort Companies and got one list of accelerators to include on our page. Added some links all cohort companies that have high potential under the tab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches)received VC funding.

3/10/31/2016 22017 12:00-52:00 pm: Began constructing *Put a list write-up on the top of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator the Accelerator wiki page detailing where we are in the project currently as well as what data we have accumulated on its website. This is in an effort to allow a crawler to crawl through many Google searches and identify acceleratorsthe RDP.

113/20/2017 1/2016 4:00-65:00 pm: Continued looking for variables that could identify *Began gathering the URLs of all accelerators from their websitesin a TextPad file called Accelerator URLs. Searched through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databasesParticipated in the SQL training session.

113/222/2016 22017 1:00-45:00 pm: Continued combing through websites of numerous accelerators, well-known *Made tables in Terminal for Accelerator companies matched with VC companies and other, in the hopes of finding identifying variablesfor Cohort Data.

113/327/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: Finalized my list of variables that could be used to distinguish the websites of accelerators. Slightly re-arranged our list *Compiled all URLs of accelerator databases in order of relevanceinto a TextPad file.

113/729/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Began compiling *Worked on the list of all acceleratorsmatched data with Ben. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new databaseNext time I will run the RegEx code that will filter the URLs, and I will look through the duplicates where two different VC backed company names matched to one cohort company name.

113/831/2016 42017 1:00-62:00 pm: Worked with Shrey and Ben *Ran the code for accelerator urls which are ready to be run through the wayback machine in order to compile all of our accelerator databases into one long list on Textpadget the start dates. Also began looking through vc backed company names.

114/93/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: *Continued formulating a database for all accelerators and all of the available info givenlooking through double matched VC companies. Learned more SQL from Ed.

114/105/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Worked with Shrey *Made the final vc percentage table on terminal and Peter in order to develop a crawler for f6snext time I will collect missing accelerator data.

114/147/2016 22017 1:00-53:00 pm: *Began sorting the Seed-DB database collecting cohort data for big accelerators that were missing from our list in an Excel documentorder to add it to our final list of cohort companies.

114/1510/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Conducted some Google searches *Finished gathering cohort company names for big accelerators that we were missing and put them into the Cleaned Cohort Companies Excel file. Ben is looking through Crunchbase data in an attempt order to possibly find more accelerator databases. Began looking through Executive Orders searching for keywordsmissing accelerators.

114/1614/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: Completed searching *Began working through "Crunchbase Potential Accelerators" textpad that may contain missing accelerators and wrote notes on the ones that I was able to go through Executive Orders. Need to finish this textpad before moving forward.

114/17/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: *Continued working on Google searches for state accelerator list. Looked going through f6s for common words potential Crunchbase accelerators that can be used we may have missed. Talked to distinguish accelerators once we Ed about getting a more comprehensive list from Excel file and by the end of the semester have finalized the crawlertables and data collected and done.

114/2119/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel *Worked with Jeemin to generate an entire list of potential US accelerators on the RDPfrom crunchbase. Went through each website and listed the steps that I took in order Worked to determine whether or not the website belonged find a way to an accelerator. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrowclassify accelerators just based on their descriptions.

114/2221/2016 42017: 1:00-64:00 pm: Listed out all steps for extracting cohort information from *Continued working through the ten randomly chosen list identifying acceleratorsthat we do not have. Worked with Peter in order to build a tool that will search all of the HTMLs Ramee and attempt to identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic informationJuliette are now helping us gather cohort data for those missing accelerators.

114/2824/2016 22017 9:00-51:00 pm: Merged the F6S accelerator list with our other *Updated Veeral on current state of project. Typed up a to-do list, then posted it on the project pagediscussion wiki for Veeral. Learned process for Got new cohort data on an accelerator data extraction from Edand added it to Excel file.

115/293/2016 42017 11:00-61:00 pm: Began process *Talked to Ed and Anne about future report. Continued working through list of collecting data from the 20 crunchbase potential accelerators that I am responsible . Last day of work forthis semester.

11/30/===Fall 2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished 15/20.===

1210/117/2016 42:00-65:00 pm: Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished original 20, picked up *Created personal wiki page as well as work log; Read about the research project to which I have been assigned; Wrote a new set short summary of 20.what I believe it is and included some helpful links

1210/218/2016 24:00-56:00 pm: Continued collecting data from *Met with research partner Shrey who filled me in on where we are with the project; Began looking on websites of certain accelerators. Finished next 20.for how to determine their cohorts and listed these steps on the wiki

1210/819/2016 12:00-35:00 pm: Completed collecting data from accelerators for *Finished looking on the remaining accelerator websites and wrote the steps on determining how to manually locate the semestercohorts.

110/1820/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Continued collecting *Met with Peter and Christy to discuss the possibility of creating a web crawler that will pull data for from individual accelerator project. Helped Catherine draft tweets for the McNair Center twitter accountsites.

110/2024/2017 12016 2:00-35:00 pm: Continued collecting data on accelerators*Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to the category name for SBDE. Attended McNair Center team meetingSpoke to Ed about full scope of accelerator project.

110/2325/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Began combing through accelerator list*Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators, determining which as well as different variables to search for in terms of accelerators are still missing data and documenting these in a TextPad file. Finished through #115, startups, cohorts, etc.

110/2526/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued looking through accelerator list.*Began searching for more databases including lists of accelerators as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching for characteristics that identify accelerators on their websites

110/27/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: *Continued going through accelerator listsearching for relevant lists of accelerators to include on our page. Left off on #226 with ShreyAdded some links that have high potential under the tab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches).

110/2031/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued going through *Began constructing a list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator liston its website. Finished This is in an effort to allow a crawler to crawl through #440many Google searches and identify accelerators.

211/1/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Finished going *Continued looking for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched through the list numerous different websites of accelerators looking for incomplete files. Began completing the files that were not doneobtained from our current databases.

11/2/3/2017 12016 2:00-34:00 pm: *Continued working on completing accelerator filescombing through websites of numerous accelerators, well-known and other, in the hopes of finding identifying variables.

211/63/2017 12016 4:00-46:30 00 pm: Finished data set *Finalized my list of accelerators. Began going through and making sure variables that all text files and cohort files are could be used to distinguish the websites of the same format so Peter can easily pull the informationaccelerators. Left for 30 minutes for an interview from 2:30Slightly re-3:00 pmarranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevance.

211/87/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Finished formatting through #137*Began compiling the list of all accelerators. Spoke Created a new TextPad document with Ed about projectinformation from a new database.

211/138/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Completed formatting for *Worked with Shrey and Ben in order to compile all of our accelerator text filesdatabases into one long list on Textpad.

211/159/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Made copy of the completed data set. Spoke to Ed about future steps to take *Continued formulating a database for project including gathering founder data all accelerators and obtaining all of the crunchbase apiavailable info given.

211/1710/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: Went through final Excel spreadsheet for cohort information. Still need *Worked with Shrey and Peter in order to run the develop a 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 accessf6s.

211/2014/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Filled out another application for Crunchbase research access; Found *Began sorting the first source for the incubator project on angelSeed-DB database in an Excel document.co, will hopefully work with Peter to make a crawler similar to f6s

211/2215/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Pulled data from SDC *Conducted some Google searches in an attempt to find more accelerator databases. Began looking through Executive Orders searching for Ed and normalized it. Learned how to use SDC and the normalizerkeywords.

211/2416/2017 12016 2:00-35:00 pm: Finished cleaning up the cohort data for Y-combinator on the Final Cohort Excel Spreadsheet*Completed searching through Executive Orders.

211/2717/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: *Continued cleaning up the cohort data in working on Google searches for state accelerator list. Looked through f6s for common words that can be used to distinguish accelerators once we have finalized the Excel file. Finished Cohort Number and Yearcrawler.

311/121/2017 2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Worked with Ben *Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel list of accelerators on the RDP. Went through each website and Shrey listed the steps that I took in order to pull data from SDC for all VC funded companies and normalized it determine whether or not the website belonged to put it in an Excel documentaccelerator. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrow.

311/322/2017 12016 4:00-26:30 00 pm: *Listed out all steps for extracting cohort information from the ten randomly chosen accelerators. Worked with Ben Peter in order to try build a tool that will search all of the HTMLs and repeat down the VC data without it going too farattempt to identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic information.

311/628/2017 12016 2:00-45:00 pm: Worked *Merged the F6S accelerator list with Shrey to finish cleaning our other list, then posted it on the cohort project page. Learned process for accelerator data. It is ready to be run through the matcher with Benextraction from Ed.

311/829/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Matched *Began process of collecting data from the VC Data with the list of Cohort Companies and got one list of all cohort companies 20 accelerators that have received VC fundingI am responsible for.

311/1030/2017 122016 2:00-25:00 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 *Continued collecting data we have accumulated on the RDPfrom accelerators. Finished 15/20.

312/201/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Began gathering the URLs of all *Continued collecting data from accelerators in . Finished original 20, picked up a TextPad file called Accelerator URLs. Participated in the SQL training sessionnew set of 20.

312/222/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Made tables in Terminal for Accelerator companies matched with VC companies and for Cohort Data*Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished next 20.

312/278/2017 2016 1:00-43:00 pm: Compiled all URLs of accelerator into a TextPad file*Completed collecting data from accelerators for the semester.