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===Variables for Hubs===
We will be creating a "Hubs scorecard" to determine how hub-like potential spaces are. These variables can be found at [[Hubs: Mechanical Turk]].
===Mechanical Turk===
We have created a page to see our actual work with mechnical turks for this paper here: [[Hubs: Mechanical Turk]].
For more general information on Mechanical Turk, go here: [[Mechanical Turk (Tool)]].
*'''Twitter activity''': ''
'''UPDATE (7/14)''': Updated turk to reflect our desired formats
'''UPDATE (7/12)''': '''AUDIT RESULTS''': We noticed
'''UPDATE (7/11)''': uploaded and published on amazon's mechanical turk site. Given the time cost to either record number of tweets in a month or look up more than 10 tweets, we decided to record the date of the last 10th tweet. Using a sample of ~10 companies, We noticed minimal differences in data observations among using 10,20, and 30 tweets.''
#Copy the text in the Search Text into a search engine.
#Click on result from twitter.com with the company name. If the link does not appear on the first 3 pages, record DNE for both outputs
#Record the company's Twitter Handle into Twitter Handle
#Record the date (MM/DD/YY) of that tweet for Twitter Activity. If there are less than 10 tweets, record DNE.
*'''Nonprofit''': ''UPDATE: written, not published, on amazon's mechanical turk site''
'''Considerations'''
*Difficulties Encountered:
*Expected Time to Complete:
*Expectation of Results (accuracy of turk, comprehensiveness):
*Other Comments:
'''Procedure'''
#Copy the text in the Search Text into a search engine.
#Click on the result that is the website of the company. If there does not exist a listing on the first three pages, mark as DNE.
#Go to links that describe the company, usually they are labelled: 'About', 'Our Story,' 'Mission'
#Look for the key word 'nonprofit'/'non-profit'
#If 'nonprofit' is identified, mark as 1, otherwise 0.
*'''Key Buzzword'''
'''Considerations'''
*Difficulties Encountered:
*Expected Time to Complete:
*Expectation of Results (accuracy of turk, comprehensiveness):
*Other Comments: can be combined with nonprofit to the same turk assignment
'''Procedure'''
#Copy the text in the Search Text into a search engine.
#Click on the result that is the website of the company. If there does not exist a listing on the first three pages, mark as DNE.
#Go to links that describe the company, usually they are labelled: 'About', 'Our Story,' 'Mission'
#Look for the key word 'entrepreneurial ecosystem','startup/technology hub', 'community'
#If any of the key words is identified, mark as 1, otherwise 0.
*'''NUMBER OF EVENTS''':
'' '''UPDATE (7/13)''': written, not published, on amazon's mechanical turk site''
'''Considerations'''
*Difficulties Encountered:Hard to separate different types of events: workshops, info sessions, meet ups, etc. Most companies put all the events on the same section and do not put event types in the titles of the events. We have to look into the details of the events to find out the type and even we do so some events descriptions do not allow us to determine the type easily. So we will count them all as 'events'.
*Expected Time to Complete:
*Expectation of Results (accuracy of turk, comprehensiveness):
*Other Comments:
'''Procedure'''
#Copy the text in the Search Text into a search engine.
#Click on the result that is the website of the company. If there does not exist a listing on the first three pages, mark as DNE.
#Look for links related to events, such as 'Events' or 'Calendar' on the homepage.
#If not found on the homepage, check 'About' and check 'Community'
#Count the number of events in July 2016 and record it. If there is no information of events on the website, record DNE.
Note***: ''Events include meetups, workshops, info sessions etc. We do not want to count them separately since it is difficult to do so. Most companies put all the events on the same section and do not put event types in the titles of the events. We have to look into the details of the events to find out the type and even we do so some events descriptions do not allow us to determine the type easily. Differentiating the types of the events demands more time and effort and therefore is not suitable to be a mechanical turk project.''
*'''Onsite Mentors''': ''UPDATE: written, not published, on amazon's mechanical turk site''
'''Considerations'''
*Difficulties Encountered:Companies put the information about mentors or mentoring programs in very different places. Some have a specific link or section for mentors/mentoring programs, some put them as a sub-section under 'About' or 'Our Team', others may put them under membership 'benefit' or 'perks'.
*Expected Time to Complete: 10 - 40 seconds
*Expectation of Results (accuracy of turk, comprehensiveness):
*Other Comments: Some companies give more detailed information about mentors or mentoring programs, but some only mention them in one line. Do we need to treat them differently?
'''Procedure'''
#Copy the text in the Search Text into a search engine.
#Click on the result that is the website of the company. If there does not exist a listing on the first three pages, mark as DNE.
#Look for links related to mentorship such as 'mentors', 'mentorship' or 'mentoring programs'
#If the key words can be identified, mark as 1
#If there is no explicit 'mentoring' section, look for links related to a description of the company, such as: 'About,' 'Our Team,' 'Our Mission,' etc., look for a subsection or mention of mentor/mentorship/mentoring
#If these exist, mark as 1.
#If not, go to links related to membership 'benefits,' 'perks,' or related.
#Do same process as end of 4 and 5
#If there is no mention of mentorship in these sections, type the company, city, and 'mentoring' into a search engine. If a link to a reliable website (such as Desktime) appears and mentorship can be found in the description, mark as 1.
#If none of these steps result in a mark of 1, mark as 0
*'''Number of Members''': ''UPDATE: written, not published, on amazon's mechanical turk site''
'''Considerations'''
*Difficulties Encountered: Some companies don’t list all members but only selective ones. Some companies do not separate current members and alumni and goes like:"we have served more than 120 startups..."
*Expected Time to Complete:
*Expectation of Results (accuracy of turk, comprehensiveness):
*Other Comments:
'''Procedure'''
#Copy the text in the Search Text into a search engine.
#Click on the result that is the website of the company. If there does not exist a listing on the first three pages, mark as DNE.
#Look for the link 'Members' or 'Residents', usually they are under the links 'Community', 'Membership', 'Our Space' or 'The Space'.
#Count the number of members
#If the link or section of 'Members' is not found, go the 'Community' and 'Coworking' and look for the description on number of startups/founders/members in the community. Record the number.
#If number of members cannot be identified using above steps, record DNE.
*'''Sponsors and Partners''':''UPDATE: written, not published, on amazon's mechanical turk site''
'''Considerations'''
*Difficulties Encountered: The company put some other companies' logos on its webpage(usually at the bottom of the homepage) such as Google and Amazon without saying that they are the sponsors or partners
*Expected Time to Complete:
*Expectation of Results (accuracy of turk, comprehensiveness):
*Other Comments:
'''Procedure'''
#Copy the text in the Search Text into a search engine.
#Click on the result that is the website of the company. If there does not exist a listing on the first three pages, mark as DNE.
#Look for the link or mention of 'Sponsors','Partners' or 'Supporters', many times of which is often under the section of 'About', 'Community', or related sections
#If sponsors or partners can be found mark as 1 and list them, otherwise mark as 0.
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Hubs on Urban Venture Capital Investment (view source)
Revision as of 16:51, 27 July 2016
, 16:51, 27 July 2016→Work In Progress
2) We have also created an example of how to write mechanical turks for collecting certain variables
=Completed Work=
