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10[[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. 9/1813/2016 42017 2:00-65:00 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 partner Shrey who filled 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 where 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 are 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 project; Began looking new list of VCCompanies as well as their earliest round dates. 10/23/2017 2:00-3:30 pm*Worked on websites sorting out the discrepancies in our matched data. 10/24/2017 3:00-5:00 pm*Went through list of certain VCCompanies and began adding respective accelerators for how in order to determine their cohorts 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 listed these steps adding accelerators. Will have this completed on Monday. 10/30/2017 2:00-3:30 pm*Finished adding all of the accelerators to the wikilist 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.

1011/192/2016 22017 4:00-5:00 30 pm: Finished looking on the remaining accelerator websites and wrote the steps on determining how to manually locate the cohorts*Continued entering cohort company dates into Excel file.

1011/206/2016 42017 2:00-64:00 pm: Met with Peter and Christy to discuss the possibility *Continued entering cohort company dates into Excel file. Began compiling a list of creating a web crawler that will pull data from individual accelerator siteskeywords for demo day press releases.

1011/247/2016 22017 3:00-5:00 pm: Brainstormed *Finished coming up with Albert and Julia about changes to the category name keywords for SBDEdemo day crawler. Spoke Sent the final list to Ed about full scope of accelerator projectPeter.

1011/258/2016 42017 2:00-63:00 30 pm: Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators, as well as different variables *Spoke to search for in terms Ed and organized all of accelerators, startups, cohorts, etcour current data.

1011/269/2016 22017 3:00-5:00 pm: Began searching for more databases including lists of accelerators *Created a new project page called Accelerator Data and listed all relevant files as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching for characteristics that identify accelerators on their websitesdescriptions.

1011/2714/2016 42017 3:00-65:00 pm: Continued searching for *Looked up URLs and decided whether or not the webiste was 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).

1011/3115/2016 2017 2:00-5:00 pm: Began constructing a list *Created SQL database entitled "acceleratordata" and began creating tables from folder 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 acceleratorsAll Relevant Files.

11/116/2016 42017 3:00-65:00 pm: *Continued looking for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databasesto input tables into SQL database.

11/220/2016 2017 2:00-45:00 pm: Continued combing through websites of numerous accelerators, well-known and other, *Cleaned text files in the hopes of finding identifying variablesorder to import tables into SQL database.

11/327/2016 42017 2:00-65:00 pm: Finalized my list of variables that could be used *Worked with Peter to distinguish the websites of acceleratorsfind and exclude irrelevant keywords on HTML pages. Slightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevanceBegan categorizing relevant demo day pages.

11/728/2016 22017 3:00-5:00 pm: Began compiling the list *Finished inputting tables of all accelerators. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new relevant files into SQL database.

11/829/2016 42017 2:00-65:00 pm: Worked *Went through accelerator HTML URLs. Spoke with Shrey Ed about going through HTMLs and Ben in order to compile all of our accelerator databases into one long list classifying based on Textpadoverall and specific relevance.

1112/91/2016 22017 3:00-5:00 pm: Continued formulating a database for all accelerators *Worked through accelerator links and all of the available info givenclassified pages based on whether or not they provided relevant information about startup timing.

1112/4/2017 10/2016 4:00-612:00 pm: Worked with Shrey *Continued running through demo day crawl URLs and Peter in order to develop a crawler for f6sscoring them based on relevance.

1112/147/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 30 pm: Began sorting *Finalized scoring of demo day URLs for the Seed-DB database in an Excel documentoriginal crawl. Last day of work for this semester.

11</15/2016 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.onlyinclude>

111/1718/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: *Continued working on Google searches collecting data for state accelerator listproject. Looked through f6s Helped Catherine draft tweets for common words that can be used to distinguish accelerators once we have finalized the crawlerMcNair Center twitter account.

111/2120/2016 22017 1:00-53:00 pm: Randomly chose 10 *Continued collecting data on 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. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrowAttended McNair Center team meeting.

111/2223/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Listed out all steps for extracting cohort information from the ten randomly chosen *Began combing through accelerator list, determining which accelerators. Worked with Peter are still missing data and documenting these 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 informationTextPad file. Finished through #115.

111/2825/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Merged the F6S *Continued looking through accelerator list with our other list, then posted it on the project page. Learned process for accelerator data extraction from Ed.

111/2927/2016 42017 1:00-63:00 pm: Began process of collecting data from the 20 accelerators that I am responsible for*Continued going through accelerator list. Left off on #226 with Shrey.

111/3020/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: *Continued collecting data from acceleratorsgoing through accelerator list. Finished 15/20through #440.

122/1/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Continued collecting data from *Finished going through the list of acceleratorslooking for incomplete files. Finished original 20, picked up a new set of 20Began completing the files that were not done.

122/23/2016 22017 1:00-53:00 pm: *Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished next 20working on completing accelerator files.

122/86/2016 2017 1:00-34:00 30 pm: Completed collecting *Finished data from 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 the semesteran interview from 2:30-3:00 pm.

12/188/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: Continued collecting data for accelerator *Finished formatting through #137. Spoke with Ed about project. Helped Catherine draft tweets for the McNair Center twitter account.

12/2013/2017 1:00-35:00 pm: Continued collecting data on accelerators. Attended McNair Center team meeting*Completed formatting for all accelerator text files.

12/2315/2017 13:00-5:00 pm: Began combing through accelerator list, determining which accelerators are still missing *Made copy of the completed data set. Spoke to Ed about future steps to take for project including gathering founder data and documenting these in a TextPad file. Finished through #115obtaining the crunchbase api.

12/2517/2017 1:00-53:00 pm: Continued looking *Went through accelerator listfinal 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.

12/2720/2017 1:00-35:00 pm: Continued going through accelerator list*Filled out another application for Crunchbase research access; Found the first source for the incubator project on angel. Left off on #226 co, will hopefully work with Shrey.Peter to make a crawler similar to f6s

12/2022/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: Continued going through accelerator list*Pulled data from SDC for Ed and normalized it. Finished through #440Learned how to use SDC and the normalizer.

2/124/2017 1:00-53:00 pm: *Finished going through cleaning up the list of accelerators looking cohort data for incomplete files. Began completing Y-combinator on the files that were not doneFinal Cohort Excel Spreadsheet.

2/327/2017 1:00-35:00 pm: *Continued working on completing accelerator filescleaning up the cohort data in the Excel file. Finished Cohort Number and Year.

23/61/2017 12:00-45:30 00 pm: Finished *Worked with Ben and Shrey to pull data set of accelerators. Began going through and making sure that from SDC for all text files VC funded companies and cohort files are of the same format so Peter can easily pull the information. Left for 30 minutes for normalized it to put it in an interview from 2:30-3:00 pmExcel document.

23/83/2017 1:00-52:00 30 pm: Finished formatting through #137. Spoke *Worked with Ed about projectBen to try and repeat down the VC data without it going too far.

23/136/2017 1:00-54:00 pm: Completed formatting for all accelerator text files*Worked with Shrey to finish cleaning the cohort data. It is ready to be run through the matcher with Ben.

23/158/2017 31:00-5:00 pm: Made copy *Matched the VC Data with the list of the completed data set. Spoke to Ed about future steps to take for project including gathering founder data Cohort Companies and obtaining the crunchbase apigot one list of all cohort companies that have received VC funding.

23/1710/2017 112:00-32:00 pm: Went through final Excel spreadsheet for cohort information. Still need to run the crawler one more time after *Put a write-up on the completion top of the editing process. Found Accelerator wiki page detailing where we are in the application for project currently as well as what data we have accumulated on the crunchbase api which will hopefully allow us to gain accessRDP.

23/20/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: Filled out another application for Crunchbase research access; Found *Began gathering the first source for URLs of all accelerators in a TextPad file called Accelerator URLs. Participated in the incubator project on angelSQL training session.co, will hopefully work with Peter to make a crawler similar to f6s

23/22/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: Pulled data from SDC *Made tables in Terminal for Ed Accelerator companies matched with VC companies and normalized it. Learned how to use SDC and the normalizerfor Cohort Data.

23/2427/2017 1:00-34:00 pm: Finished cleaning up the cohort data for Y-combinator on the Final Cohort Excel Spreadsheet*Compiled all URLs of accelerator into a TextPad file.

23/2729/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: Continued cleaning up *Worked on the cohort matched data in with Ben. Next time I will run the Excel file. Finished Cohort Number RegEx code that will filter the URLs, and YearI will look through the duplicates where two different VC backed company names matched to one cohort company name.

3/131/2017 21:00-52:00 pm: Worked with Ben and Shrey to pull data from SDC *Ran the code for all VC funded companies and normalized it accelerator urls which are ready to put it be run through the wayback machine in an Excel documentorder to get the start dates. Also began looking through vc backed company names.

34/3/2017 1:00-25:30 00 pm: Worked with Ben to try and repeat down the *Continued looking through double matched VC data without it going too farcompanies. Learned more SQL from Ed.

34/65/2017 1:00-45:00 pm: Worked with Shrey to finish cleaning *Made the cohort final vc percentage table on terminal and for next time I will collect missing accelerator data. It is ready to be run through the matcher with Ben.

34/87/2017 1:00-53:00 pm: Matched the VC Data with the *Began collecting cohort data for big accelerators that were missing from our list of Cohort Companies and got one in order to add it to our final list of all cohort companies that have received VC funding.

34/10/2017 121:00-25:00 pm: Put a write-up on the top of the Accelerator wiki page detailing where *Finished gathering cohort company names for big accelerators that we are in were missing and put them into the project currently as well as what Cleaned Cohort Companies Excel file. Ben is looking through Crunchbase data we have accumulated on the RDPin order to possibly find more missing accelerators.

34/2014/2017 1:00-54:00 pm: *Began gathering working through "Crunchbase Potential Accelerators" textpad that may contain missing accelerators and wrote notes on the URLs of all accelerators in a TextPad file called Accelerator URLsones that I was able to go through. Participated in the SQL training sessionNeed to finish this textpad before moving forward.

34/2217/2017 1:00-54:00 pm: Made *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 tables in Terminal for Accelerator companies matched with VC companies and for Cohort Datadata collected and done.

34/2719/2017 1:00-4:00 pm: Compiled all URLs *Worked with Jeemin to generate an entire list of accelerator into potential US accelerators from crunchbase. Worked to find a TextPad fileway to classify accelerators just based on their descriptions.

34/21/2017: 1:00-4:00 pm*Continued working through the list identifying accelerators that we do not have. Ramee and Juliette are now helping us gather cohort data for those missing accelerators. 4/2924/2017 9:00-1:00pm*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 added it to Excel file. 5/3/2017 11:00-1:00 pm*Talked to Ed and Anne about future report. Continued working through list of crunchbase potential accelerators. Last day of work for this semester. ===Fall 2016=== 10/17/2016 2: Worked 00-5:00 pm*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 10/18/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*Met with research partner Shrey who filled me in on where we are with the project; Began looking on websites of certain accelerators for how to determine their cohorts and listed these steps on the wiki 10/19/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Finished looking on the remaining accelerator websites and wrote the steps on determining how to manually locate the cohorts. 10/20/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*Met with Peter and Christy to discuss the matched possibility of creating a web crawler that will pull data from individual accelerator sites. 10/24/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to the category name for SBDE. Spoke to Ed about full scope of accelerator project. 10/25/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*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. 10/26/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Began searching for more databases including lists of accelerators as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching for characteristics that identify accelerators on their websites 10/27/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*Continued searching 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). 10/31/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*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. 11/1/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*Continued looking for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databases. 11/2/2016 2:00-4:00 pm*Continued combing through websites of numerous accelerators, well-known and other, in the hopes of finding identifying variables. 11/3/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*Finalized my list of variables that could be used to distinguish the websites of accelerators. Slightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevance. 11/7/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Began compiling the list of all accelerators. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new database. 11/8/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*Worked with Shrey and Benin order to compile all of our accelerator databases into one long list on Textpad. Next time I will run  11/9/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Continued formulating a database for all accelerators and all of the available info given. 11/10/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*Worked with Shrey and Peter in order to develop a crawler for f6s. 11/14/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Began sorting the RegEx code Seed-DB database in an Excel document. 11/15/2016 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. 11/16/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Completed searching through Executive Orders. 11/17/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*Continued working on Google searches for state accelerator list. Looked through f6s for common words that will filter can be used to distinguish accelerators once we have finalized the crawler. 11/21/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel list of accelerators on the URLs, 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 tomorrow. 11/22/2016 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 look through search all of the duplicates where two different VC backed company names matched HTMLs and attempt to identify each one cohort company nameas an accelerator as well as extract some basic information. 11/28/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Merged the F6S accelerator list with our other list, then posted it on the project page. Learned process for accelerator data extraction from Ed. 11/29/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*Began process of collecting data from the 20 accelerators that I am responsible for. 11/30/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished 15/20. 12/1/2016 4:00-6:00 pm*Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished original 20, picked up a new set of 20. 12/2/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished next 20. 12/8/2016 1:00-3:00 pm*Completed collecting data from accelerators for the semester.