Changes

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. 9/1812/2016 42017 3:00-65:00 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 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 we are 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 project; Began looking on websites 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 certain accelerators VCCompanies and their earliest round date. Included a column for how to determine the date they went through their cohorts accelerators and listed these steps 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 wikiaccuracy and completion of our data.

10/19/2016 22017 3:00-5:00 pm: Finished looking on the remaining accelerator websites *Organized all of our matched data and wrote the steps on determining how updated it in order to manually locate reflect the cohortsmost recent SDC pull with Ed. Matched Crunchbase data with our cohort companies.

10/20/2016 42017 2:00-63:00 30 pm: Met with Peter and Christy to discuss *Generated the possibility new list of creating a web crawler that will pull data from individual accelerator sitesVCCompanies as well as their earliest round dates.

10/2423/2016 2017 2:00-53:00 30 pm: Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to *Worked on sorting out the category name for SBDE. Spoke to Ed about full scope of accelerator projectdiscrepancies in our matched data.

10/2524/2016 42017 3:00-65:00 pm: Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within *Went through list of VCCompanies and began adding respective accelerators, as well as different variables in order to search for in terms of accelerators, startups, cohorts, etcproceed with VCPercentage table.

10/2625/2016 2017 2:00-5:00 pm: Began searching for more databases including lists of accelerators as well as some characteristics *Continued going through list of those accelerators; Began searching for characteristics that identify VCCompanies and adding accelerators on their websites.

10/2726/2016 42017 3:0030-65:00 30 pm: *Continued searching for relevant lists going through list of VCCompanies and adding accelerators to include on our page. Added some links that Will have high potential under the tab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches)this completed on Monday.

10/3130/2016 2017 2:00-53:00 30 pm: Began constructing a *Finished adding all of the accelerators to the list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator on its websiteVCCompanies. This is in an effort to allow Added a crawler to crawl column indicating whether or not the company went through many Google searches and identify two or more accelerators.

1110/131/2016 42017 3:00-65:00 pm: Continued looking *Began compiling data in the column for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched Date Company went through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databasesAccelerator.

11/21/2016 2017 2:00-4:00 pm: Continued combing through websites of numerous accelerators, well-known and other, in the hopes of finding identifying variables*Finalized entering dates for Y Combinator cohort companies.

11/32/2016 2017 4:00-65:00 30 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*Continued entering cohort company dates into Excel file.

11/76/2016 2017 2:00-54:00 pm: *Continued entering cohort company dates into Excel file. Began compiling the a list of all accelerators. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new databasekeywords for demo day press releases.

11/87/2016 42017 3:00-65:00 pm: Worked *Finished coming up with Shrey and Ben in order keywords for demo day crawler. Sent the final list to compile all of our accelerator databases into one long list on TextpadPeter.

11/98/2016 2017 2:00-53:00 30 pm: Continued formulating a database for all accelerators *Spoke to Ed and organized all of the available info givenour current data.

11/109/2016 42017 3:00-65:00 pm: Worked with Shrey *Created a new project page called Accelerator Data and Peter in order to develop a crawler for f6slisted all relevant files as well as descriptions.

11/14/2016 22017 3:00-5:00 pm: Began sorting *Looked up URLs and decided whether or not the Seed-DB database in an Excel documentwebiste was relevant.

11/15/2016 42017 2:00-65:00 pm: Conducted some Google searches in an attempt to find more accelerator databases. Began looking through Executive Orders searching for keywords*Created SQL database entitled "acceleratordata" and began creating tables from folder of All Relevant Files.

11/16/2016 22017 3:00-5:00 pm: Completed searching through Executive Orders*Continued to input tables into SQL database.

11/1720/2016 42017 2:00-65:00 pm: Continued working on Google searches for state accelerator list. Looked through f6s for common words that can be used *Cleaned text files in order to distinguish accelerators once we have finalized the crawlerimport tables into SQL database.

11/2127/2016 2017 2:00-5:00 pm: Randomly chose 10 accelerators from Excel list of accelerators *Worked with Peter to find and exclude irrelevant keywords 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 acceleratorHTML pages. Will continue extracting cohort information tomorrowBegan categorizing relevant demo day pages.

11/2228/2016 42017 3:00-65:00 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 *Finished inputting tables of the HTMLs and attempt to identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic informationrelevant files into SQL database.

11/2829/2016 2017 2:00-5:00 pm: Merged the F6S *Went through accelerator list HTML URLs. Spoke with our other list, then posted it Ed about going through HTMLs and classifying based on the project page. Learned process for accelerator data extraction from Edoverall and specific relevance.

1112/291/2016 42017 3:00-65:00 pm: Began process of collecting data from the 20 accelerators that I am responsible for*Worked through accelerator links and classified pages based on whether or not they provided relevant information about startup timing.

1112/304/2016 22017 10:00-512:00 pm: *Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished 15/20running through demo day crawl URLs and scoring them based on relevance.

12/7/2017 1/2016 4:00-64:00 30 pm: Continued collecting data from accelerators*Finalized scoring of demo day URLs for the original crawl. Finished original 20, picked up a new set Last day of 20work for this semester.

12</2/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued collecting data from accelerators. Finished next 20.onlyinclude>

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.

3/6/2017 1:00-4:00 pm: *Worked with Shrey to finish cleaning the cohort data. It is ready to be run through the matcher with Ben.

3/8/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: *Matched the VC Data with the list of Cohort Companies and got one list of all cohort companies that have received VC funding.

3/10/2017 12:00-2:00 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 data we have accumulated on the RDP.

3/20/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: *Began gathering the URLs of all accelerators in a TextPad file called Accelerator URLs. Participated in the SQL training session.

3/22/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: *Made tables in Terminal for Accelerator companies matched with VC companies and for Cohort Data.

3/27/2017 1:00-4:00 pm: *Compiled all URLs of accelerator into a TextPad file.

3/29/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: *Worked on the matched data with Ben. Next 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.

3/31/2017 1:00-2:00 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 through vc backed company names.

4/3/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: *Continued looking through double matched VC companies. Learned more SQL from Ed.

4/5/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: *Made the final vc percentage table on terminal and for next time I will collect missing accelerator data.

4/7/2017 1:00-3:00 pm: *Began collecting cohort data for big accelerators that were missing from our list in order to add it to our final list of cohort companies.

4/10/2017 1:00-5:00 pm: *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 order to possibly find more missing accelerators.

4/14/2017 1:00-4:00 pm: *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. Need to finish this textpad before moving forward.

4/17/2017 1:00-4:00 pm: *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 and data collected and done.

4/19/2017 1:00-4:00 pm: *Worked with Jeemin to generate an entire list of potential US accelerators from crunchbase. Worked to find a way to classify accelerators just based on their descriptions.

4/21/2017: 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.

4/24/2017 9:00-1:00 pm: *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.

910/1217/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Began going through *Created personal wiki page as well as work log; Read about the Cleaned Cohort Data Excel file and found research project to which I have been assigned; Wrote a few problems with short summary of what I believe it. Will continue the cleaning process for the rest of the week.is and included some helpful links

910/1318/2017 22016 4:00-56:00 pm: Sorted through Cleaned Cohort Data *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 finalized our List of Accelerators. We can begin listed these steps on the process of creating our PercentVC table.wiki

910/1419/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Completely finalized our dataset of accelerators *Finished looking on the remaining accelerator websites and startups. Met with Michelle Passo wrote the steps on determining how to discuss objectives of manually locate the research for credit coursecohorts.

910/1820/2017 22016 4:00-46:00 pm: Talked *Met with Peter about and Christy to discuss the LinkedIn possibility of creating a web crawler that will pull data. Went through VC page that Meghana sent mefrom individual accelerator sites.

910/1924/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Completed SDC pull *Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to the category name for SBDE. Spoke to Ed about full scope of updated VC Dataaccelerator project.

910/2025/2017 22016 4:00-56:00 pm: Attempted several times *Brainstormed with Shrey about different potential industry focuses within accelerators, as well as different variables to run the Matcher. Cleaned our pulled datasearch for in terms of accelerators, startups, cohorts, etc.

910/2126/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Came extremely close to running the Matcher the correctly. Reviewed the final LinkedIn data from Peter.*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

910/2527/2017 22016 4:00-56:00 pm: Finalized the matched file *Continued searching for relevant lists of accelerator companies with VC portfolio companiesaccelerators to include on our page. Gave Ben Added some links that have high potential under the data on Georgia acceleratorstab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches).

910/2631/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Worked *Began constructing a list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator on finding the duplicates its website. This is in our Matched file in order an effort to allow a crawler to have the most accurate datacrawl through many Google searches and identify accelerators.

911/271/2017 22016 4:00-56:00 pm: Attempted to find a way to organize the duplicate matches*Continued looking for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databases.

911/282/2017 42016 2:00-54:00 pm: *Continued running combing through matched data websites of numerous accelerators, well-known and other, in order to organize it effectivelythe hopes of finding identifying variables.

1011/23/2017 22016 4:00-56:00 pm: Talked *Finalized my list of variables that could be used to Ed about next steps for distinguish the projectwebsites of accelerators. Practiced accessing the crunchbase database on SQL. Brushed up on SQL codeSlightly re-arranged our list of accelerator databases in order of relevance.

1011/37/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Searched *Began compiling the list of all accelerators. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new database for crunchbase investment information.

1011/8/2016 4/2017 2:00-56:00 pm: Pulled the funding rounds table from SQL *Worked with Shrey and matched it with the companies that have received VC funding Ben in order to gather round datescompile all of our accelerator databases into one long list on Textpad.

1011/69/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Went through the matched data. Brainstormed ways to get the dates *Continued formulating a database for cohort companies going through all acceleratorsand all of the available info given.

11/10/11/2017 22016 4:00-36:30 00 pm: Looked into using the WhoIs Parser *Worked with Shrey and Peter in order to find when the companies went through their acceleratorsdevelop a crawler for f6s.

1011/1214/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Discovered that *Began sorting 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 Seed-DB database in when we find a good method of finding this datean Excel document.

1011/1615/2017 22016 4:00-36:30 00 pm: Continued working on sorting VCCompanies by their earliest round date*Conducted some Google searches in an attempt to find more accelerator databases. Began looking through Executive Orders searching for keywords.

1011/1716/2017 32016 2:00-5:00 pm: Worked with Ben to find a solution to our problem of data acquisition. Finalized earliest round date for VCCompanies*Completed searching through Executive Orders.

1011/1817/2017 22016 4:00-56:00 pm: Updated our VC data with Ed's help in order *Continued working on Google searches for state accelerator list. Looked through f6s for common words that can be used to increase distinguish accelerators once we have finalized the accuracy and completion of our datacrawler.

1011/1921/2017 32016 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: Organized 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 our matched data the HTMLs and updated it in order attempt to reflect identify each one as an accelerator as well as extract some basic information. 11/28/2016 2:00-5:00 pm*Merged the most recent SDC pull F6S accelerator list with our other list, then posted it on the project page. Learned process for accelerator data extraction from Ed. Matched Crunchbase  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 with our cohort companiesfrom 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.