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- *4:30: Progress: I'm about halfway done with my rough draft of the segment of my article dealing with Access to Capital and how candidates have addressed it. I will not be back at the McNair center until the Monday after SB.
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[[Pedro Alvarez]] [[Work Logs]] [[Pedro Alvarez (Work Log)|(log page)]]
20160328-20160404 (Fri, Mon, Wed, Mon) Goal: Match the F500 and VC Backed Data
*Progress: I encountered plenty of difficulties finding the appropriate data points, formatting the text/sql files, and ultimately performing the match. While I've performed the initial match, I would like to verify that there were no "hiccups" in the importing process. After I'm done with that, I'll pull NAICS codes and match those to the matched VC/F500 companies.
20160325 (Fri): 1:00-Goal: Work on VC/F500 spreadsheets
*Progress: 4:00- I have extracted information on the industry sectors, dates of financing, and specific location of these firms. Next monday, I want to run the match function, and then really begin analyzing trends in the fortune 500 and VC funding
20160323 (Wed): 1:00-Goal: Look for useful VC data
*Progress: 4:30- Using sdc platinum, i extracted information about every single vc-backed firm available. this extensive data took a while to organize, but it's finally in an understandable excel format. On friday, i hope to continue with the analysis
20160321 (Mon): 1:00- Goal: Research Fortune 500 companies' composition over time, try to gauge from the data where exactly they
*Progress: 4:40- I compiled an Excel spreadsheet of F500 companies from 1980-2015, and began working on compiling lists of the largest VC-Backed firms over the same time frame.
20160318 (Fri): 1:33- Goal: Today, I'm continuing on the small business finance/access to capital page on the wiki.
*Progress: 4:30- I've cleaned up most of my wiki page, and am going to research a new topic for a couple of days.
20160316 (Wed): 1:00- Goal: Continue on Monday's work
*Progress: 4:30- I've got a more quantitatively fortified section on the credit decline as a factor in small business finance
20160314 (Mon): 1:00- Goal: Move all notes on Small Business access to capital from Google Doc to wiki format.
*4:30- Progress: I need to continue doing this task, and additionally, find more general data on how access to capital looks now, and how it may change in the future.
20160311 (Fri): I was in an interview and did not come in today.
20160309 (Wed): 1:00- Goal: Add Graphics to Access to Capital portion, Make headway on the candidates stance section of paper
*4:30-Progress: I'm almost done with the access to capital candidate portion, and will review what I have done with Ed.
20160307 (Mon): 12:58- Goal: Finish the Access to Capital portion of my article. Start on overview.
*4:30- Progress: I'm done with my access to capital portion, and will trim verbose or unessential portions. I'm also planning on adding more graphics.
20160226 (Fri): I was sick and did not come in today.
20160224 (Wed): 1:10- Goal: Finish some administrative housekeeping tasks and begin writing the article
20160222 (Mon): 1:00- Goal: Continue research on how non-financial governmental institutions influence small business growth
