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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 project; Began looking 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 websites Monday. 10/30/2017 2:00-3:30 pm*Finished adding all of the accelerators to the list of certain 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 how 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 determine their cohorts 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 these steps 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 wikioriginal 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.

101/1927/2016 22017 1:00-53:00 pm: Finished looking on the remaining *Continued going through accelerator websites and wrote the steps list. Left off on determining how to manually locate the cohorts#226 with Shrey.

101/20/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Met with Peter and Christy to discuss the possibility of creating a web crawler that will pull data from individual *Continued going through accelerator siteslist. Finished through #440.

102/241/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to *Finished going through the category name list of accelerators looking for SBDEincomplete files. Spoke to Ed about full scope of accelerator projectBegan completing the files that were not done.

102/253/2016 42017 1:00-63:00 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*Continued working on completing accelerator files.

102/266/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 30 pm: Began searching for more databases including lists *Finished data set of accelerators as well as some characteristics . Began going through and making sure that all text files and cohort files are of those accelerators; Began searching the same format so Peter can easily pull the information. Left for 30 minutes for characteristics that identify accelerators on their websitesan interview from 2:30-3:00 pm.

102/278/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Continued searching for relevant lists of accelerators to include on our page*Finished formatting through #137. Added some links that have high potential under the tab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches)Spoke with Ed about project.

102/3113/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Began constructing a list of variables that clearly distinguish an *Completed formatting for all accelerator on its website. This is in an effort to allow a crawler to crawl through many Google searches and identify acceleratorstext files.

112/115/2016 42017 3:00-65:00 pm: Continued looking *Made copy of the completed data set. Spoke to Ed about future steps to take for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databasesproject including gathering founder data and obtaining the crunchbase api.

112/217/2016 22017 1:00-43:00 pm: Continued combing *Went through websites final Excel spreadsheet for cohort information. Still need to run the crawler one more time after the completion of numerous accelerators, well-known and other, in the hopes of finding identifying variablesediting process. Found the application for the crunchbase api which will hopefully allow us to gain access.

112/320/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Finalized my list of variables that could be used to distinguish *Filled out another application for Crunchbase research access; Found the first source for the websites of accelerators. Slightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevanceincubator project on angel.co, will hopefully work with Peter to make a crawler similar to f6s

112/722/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Began compiling *Pulled data from SDC for Ed and normalized it. Learned how to use SDC and the list of all accelerators. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new databasenormalizer.

112/824/2016 42017 1:00-63:00 pm: Worked with Shrey and Ben in order to compile all of our accelerator databases into one long list *Finished cleaning up the cohort data for Y-combinator on Textpadthe Final Cohort Excel Spreadsheet.

112/927/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: *Continued formulating a database for all accelerators cleaning up the cohort data in the Excel file. Finished Cohort Number and all of the available info givenYear.

113/101/2016 42017 2:00-65:00 pm: *Worked with Ben and Shrey to pull data from SDC for all VC funded companies and Peter normalized it to put it in order to develop a crawler for f6san Excel document.

113/143/2016 22017 1:00-52:00 30 pm: Began sorting *Worked with Ben to try and repeat down the Seed-DB database in an Excel documentVC data without it going too far.

113/156/2016 42017 1:00-64:00 pm: Conducted some Google searches in an attempt *Worked with Shrey to find more accelerator databasesfinish cleaning the cohort data. Began looking It is ready to be run through Executive Orders searching for keywordsthe matcher with Ben.

113/168/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Completed searching through Executive Orders*Matched the VC Data with the list of Cohort Companies and got one list of all cohort companies that have received VC funding.

113/1710/2016 42017 12:00-62:00 pm: Continued working *Put a write-up on Google searches for state accelerator list. Looked through f6s for common words that can be used to distinguish accelerators once the top of the Accelerator wiki page detailing where we are in the project currently as well as what data we have finalized accumulated on the crawlerRDP.

113/2120/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel list *Began gathering the URLs of all accelerators on the RDPin a TextPad file called Accelerator URLs. Went through each website and listed the steps that I took Participated in order to determine whether or not the website belonged to an accelerator. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrowSQL training session.

113/22/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Listed out all steps *Made tables in Terminal for extracting cohort information from the ten randomly chosen accelerators. Worked Accelerator companies matched with Peter in order to build a tool that will search all of the HTMLs VC companies and attempt to identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic informationfor Cohort Data.

113/2827/2016 22017 1:00-54:00 pm: Merged the F6S accelerator list with our other list, then posted it on the project page. Learned process for *Compiled all URLs of accelerator data extraction from Edinto a TextPad file.

113/29/2016 42017 1:00-65:00 pm: Began process of collecting *Worked on the matched data from with Ben. Next time I will run the 20 accelerators RegEx code that will filter the URLs, and I am responsible forwill look through the duplicates where two different VC backed company names matched to one cohort company name.

113/3031/2016 22017 1:00-52:00 pm: Continued collecting data from accelerators*Ran the code for accelerator urls which are ready to be run through the wayback machine in order to get the start dates. Finished 15/20Also began looking through vc backed company names.

124/3/2017 1/2016 4:00-65:00 pm: *Continued collecting data looking through double matched VC companies. Learned more SQL from accelerators. Finished original 20, picked up a new set of 20Ed.

124/25/2016 22017 1:00-5:00 pm: Continued collecting *Made the final vc percentage table on terminal and for next time I will collect missing accelerator data from accelerators. Finished next 20.

124/87/2016 2017 1:00-3:00 pm: Completed *Began collecting cohort data for big accelerators that were missing from accelerators for the semesterour list in order to add it to our final list of cohort companies.

14/1810/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: Continued collecting data *Finished gathering cohort company names for accelerator projectbig accelerators that we were missing and put them into the Cleaned Cohort Companies Excel file. Helped Catherine draft tweets for the McNair Center twitter accountBen is looking through Crunchbase data in order to possibly find more missing accelerators.

14/2014/2017 1:00-34:00 pm: Continued collecting data *Began working through "Crunchbase Potential Accelerators" textpad that may contain missing accelerators and wrote notes on acceleratorsthe ones that I was able to go through. Attended McNair Center team meetingNeed to finish this textpad before moving forward.

14/2317/2017 1:00-54:00 pm: Began combing *Continued going through accelerator potential Crunchbase accelerators that we may have missed. Talked to Ed about getting a more comprehensive list, determining which accelerators are still missing from Excel file and by the end of the semester have the tables and data collected and documenting these in a TextPad file. Finished through #115done.

14/2519/2017 1:00-54:00 pm: Continued looking through accelerator *Worked with Jeemin to generate an entire listof potential US accelerators from crunchbase. Worked to find a way to classify accelerators just based on their descriptions.

14/2721/2017 : 1:00-34:00 pm: *Continued going working through accelerator the listidentifying accelerators that we do not have. Left off on #226 with ShreyRamee and Juliette are now helping us gather cohort data for those missing accelerators.

14/2024/2017 19:00-51:00 pm: Continued going through accelerator *Updated Veeral on current state of project. Typed up a to-do liston the discussion wiki for Veeral. Finished through #440Got new cohort data on an accelerator and added it to Excel file.

25/13/2017 111:00-51:00 pm: Finished going *Talked to Ed and Anne about future report. Continued working through the list of crunchbase potential accelerators looking . Last day of work for incomplete files. Began completing the files that were not donethis semester.

210/617/2017 12016 2:00-45:30 00 pm: Finished data set *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 accelerators. Began going through and making sure that all text files what I believe it is 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.included some helpful links

210/818/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Finished formatting through #137. Spoke *Met with research partner Shrey who filled me in on where we are with Ed about the project.; Began looking on websites of certain accelerators for how to determine their cohorts and listed these steps on the wiki

210/1319/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Completed formatting for all *Finished looking on the remaining accelerator text fileswebsites and wrote the steps on determining how to manually locate the cohorts.

210/1520/2017 32016 4:00-56:00 pm: Made copy *Met with Peter and Christy to discuss the possibility of the completed creating a web crawler that will pull data set. Spoke to Ed about future steps to take for project including gathering founder data and obtaining the crunchbase apifrom individual accelerator sites.

210/1724/2017 12016 2:00-35:00 pm: Went through final Excel spreadsheet *Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to the category name for cohort informationSBDE. Still need Spoke to run the crawler one more time after the completion Ed about full scope of the editing process. Found the application for the crunchbase api which will hopefully allow us to gain accessaccelerator project.

210/2025/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Filled out another application *Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators, as well as different variables to search for Crunchbase research access; Found the first source for the incubator project on angelin terms of accelerators, startups, cohorts, etc.co, will hopefully work with Peter to make a crawler similar to f6s

210/2226/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Pulled data from SDC *Began searching for more databases including lists of accelerators as well as some characteristics of those accelerators; Began searching for Ed and normalized it. Learned how to use SDC and the normalizer.characteristics that identify accelerators on their websites

210/2427/2017 12016 4:00-36:00 pm: Finished cleaning up the cohort data *Continued searching for Y-combinator relevant lists of accelerators to include on our page. Added some links that have high potential under the Final Cohort Excel Spreadsheettab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches).

210/2731/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued cleaning up the cohort data *Began constructing a list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator on its website. This is in the Excel file. Finished Cohort Number an effort to allow a crawler to crawl through many Google searches and Yearidentify accelerators.

311/1/2017 22016 4:00-56:00 pm: Worked with Ben and Shrey to pull data *Continued looking for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from SDC for all VC funded companies and normalized it to put it in an Excel documentour current databases.

311/32/2017 12016 2:00-24:30 00 pm: Worked with Ben to try *Continued combing through websites of numerous accelerators, well-known and repeat down other, in the VC data without it going too farhopes of finding identifying variables.

11/3/6/2017 12016 4:00-46:00 pm: Worked with Shrey *Finalized my list of variables that could be used to finish cleaning distinguish the cohort datawebsites of accelerators. It is ready to be run through the matcher with BenSlightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevance.

311/87/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Matched the VC Data with *Began compiling the list of Cohort Companies and got one list of all cohort companies that have received VC fundingaccelerators. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new database.

311/108/2017 122016 4:00-26:00 pm: Put a write-up on the top *Worked with Shrey and Ben in order to compile all of the Accelerator wiki page detailing where we are in the project currently as well as what data we have accumulated our accelerator databases into one long list on the RDPTextpad.

311/209/2017 12016 2:00-5:00 pm: Began gathering the URLs of *Continued formulating a database for all accelerators in a TextPad file called Accelerator URLs. Participated in and all of the SQL training sessionavailable info given.

311/2210/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Made tables in Terminal for Accelerator companies matched *Worked with VC companies Shrey and Peter in order to develop a crawler for Cohort Dataf6s.

311/2714/2017 12016 2:00-45:00 pm: Compiled all URLs of accelerator into a TextPad file*Began sorting the Seed-DB database in an Excel document.

311/2915/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: Worked on the matched data with Ben*Conducted some Google searches in an attempt to find more accelerator databases. Next time I will run the RegEx code that will filter the URLs, and I will look Began looking through the duplicates where two different VC backed company names matched to one cohort company nameExecutive Orders searching for keywords.

311/3116/2017 12016 2:00-25:00 pm: Ran the code for accelerator urls which are ready to be run through the wayback machine in order to get the start dates. Also began looking *Completed searching through vc backed company namesExecutive Orders.

411/317/2017 12016 4:00-56:00 pm: *Continued looking working on Google searches for state accelerator list. Looked through double matched VC companies. Learned more SQL from Edf6s for common words that 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 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 search all of the HTMLs and attempt to identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic information. 11/528/2017 12016 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: Made 00 pm*Began process of collecting data from the final vc percentage table on terminal and 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 time I will collect missing accelerator 20. 12/8/2016 1:00-3:00 pm*Completed collecting datafrom accelerators for the semester.