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09/27/2016 15:00-18:00: Set up Staff wiki page, work [[Peter Jalbert]] [[Work Logs]] [[Peter Jalbert (Work Log)|(log page; registered for Slack, Microsoft Remote Desktop; downloaded Selenium on personal computer, read Selenium docs. Created wiki page for Moroccan Web Driver Project.)]]

09/29/2016 15:002017-12-18:0021: Re-enroll in Microsoft Remote Desktop with proper authentication, set up Selenium environment and Komodo IDE on Remote Desktop, wrote program using Selenium that goes Last minute adjustments to a link and opens up the print dialog boxMoroccan Data. Developed computational recipe for a different approach to the problemContinued working on [[Selenium Documentation]].

09/30/2016 2017-12:00-14:0020: Working on Selenium program selects view pdf option from the website, and goes to the pdf webpageDocumentation. Program then switches handle to the new pageWrote 2 demo files. CTRL S Wiki Page is sent to the page to launch save dialog windowavaiable [http://www. Text cannot be sent to this windowedegan. Brainstorm ways around this issuecom/wiki/Selenium_Documentation here]. Explored Chrome Options Created 3 spreadsheets for saving automatically without a dialog window. Looking into other libraries besides selenium that may helpthe Moroccan data.

10/3/2016 13:00 2017-12- 16:0019: Moroccan Web Driver projects completed for driving of Finished fixing the Monarchy proposed bills, the House of Representatives proposed bills, and the Ratified bills sitesDemo Day Crawler. Begun process of devising a naming system for the Changed files that does not require scraping. Tinkered with naming through regular expression parsing of the URL. Structure for the oral questions and written questions drivers is set up, but need fixes due installed as appropriate to the differences make linked in crawler compatible with the sitesRDP. Fixed bug on McNair wiki for women's biz team where email was plain text instead Removed some of an email link. Took a glimpse at Kuwait Parliament website, the bells and it appears to be very different from the Moroccan setupwhistles.

10/6/2016 13:30 2017-12- 18:00: Discussed Continued finding errors with Drthe Demo Day Crawler analysis. Elbadawy about Rewrote the desired file names for Moroccan data download. The consensus was parser to remove any search terms that were in the bill programs are ready top 10000 most common English words according to launch once the files can be named properly, Google. Finished uploading and the questions submitting Moroccan data must be retrieved using a web crawler which I need to learn how to implement. The naming of files is currently drawing errors in going from arabic, to url, to download, to filename. Debugging in process. Also built a demo selenium program for Dr. Egan that drives the McNair blog site on an infinite loop.

10/7/2016 2017-12:00 - 14:0015: Learned unicode and utf8 encoding and decoding in arabicFound errors with the Demo Day Crawler. Still working on transforming an ascii url into printable unicodeFixed scripts to download Moroccan Law Data.

10/11/2016 15:00 2017-12- 18:0014: Fixed arabic bug, files can now be saved with arabic titles. Monarchy bills downloaded and ready for shipmentUploading Morocco Parliament Written Questions. House of Representatives Bill mostly downloaded, ratified bills prepared Creating script for next Morocco Parliament download. Started learning scrapy library in python for web scrapingBegin writing Selenium documentation. Discussed idea of screenshot-ing questions instead of scrapingContinuing to download TIGER data.

10/13/2016 13:002017-12-1806:00: Completed download of Moroccan Bills. Working on either a web driver screenshot approach or a webcrawler approach to download the Moroccan oral and written questions data. Began building Web Crawler for Oral and Running Morocco Parliament Written Questions sitescript. Edited Moroccan Web Driver/Analyzing Demo Day Crawler wiki pageresults. [http://mcnair.bakerinstituteContinued downloading for TIGER geocoder.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web Driver]

10/14/2016 12:002017-11-1428:00: Finished Oral Questions crawlerDebugging Morocco Parliament Crawler. Finished Written Questions crawlerRunning Demo Day Crawler for all accelerators and 10 pages per accelerator. Waiting for further details on whether that data needs TIGER geocoder is back to be tweaked in any way. Updated the Moroccan Web Driver/Web Crawler wiki page. [http://mcnair.bakerinstituteForbidden Error.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web Driver]

10/18/2016 15:002017-11-1827:30: Finished code for Oral Questions web driver Rerunning Morocco Parliament Crawler. Fixed KeyTerms.py and Written Questions web driver using seleniumrunning it again. Now, the data Continued downloading for the dates of questions can be found using the crawler, and the pdfs of the questions will be downloaded using selenium. [http://mcnair.bakerinstituteTIGER geocoder.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web Driver]

10/2017-11-20/2016 13:00-18:00: Continued to download data for the Moroccan Parliament Written and Oral Questions. Updated Wiki page. Started working on Twitter project with Christy. running [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web DriverDemo_Day_Page_Parser Demo Day Page Parser]. Fixed KeyTerms.py and trying to run it again. Forbidden Error continues with the TIGER Geocoder. Began Image download for Image Classification on cohort pages. Clarifying specs for Morocco Parliament crawler.

10/21/2016 12:002017-11-14:0016: Continued to download data for the Moroccan Parliament Written and Oral Questions. Looked over running [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Christy_Warden_(Twitter_Crawler_Application_1) Christy's Twitter CrawlerDemo_Day_Page_Parser Demo Day Page Parser] to see how I can be helpful. DrFixed KeyTerms. Egan asked me to think about how to potentially make multiple tools py and trying to get cohorts and other sorts of data from accelerator sitesrun it again. See [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator List] He also asked me to look at Forbidden Error continues with the [http://mcnairTIGER Geocoder.bakerinstituteBegan Image download for Image Classification on cohort pages.org/wiki/Govtrack_Webcrawler_(Wiki_Page) GovTrack Web Crawler] Clarifying specs for potential ideas on how to bring this project to fruitionMorocco Parliament crawler.

2017-11/1/2016: -15:00-18Continued running [http:00: Continued //www.edegan.com/wiki/Demo_Day_Page_Parser Demo Day Page Parser]. Wrote a script to download Moroccan data in the backgroundextract counts that were greater than 2 from Keyword Matcher. Went over code Continued downloading for GovTracker Web Crawler, continued learning Perl. [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Govtrack_Webcrawler_(Wiki_Page) GovTrack Web CrawlerTiger_Geocoder TIGER Geocoder] Began Kuwait Web Crawler/Driver. Finished re-formatting work logs.

2017-11/3/2016: 13:00-1814:00Continued running [http: Continued ///www.edegan.com/wiki/Demo_Day_Page_Parser Demo Day Page Parser]. Wrote an HTML to download Moroccan data in the backgroundText parser. See Parser Demo Day Page for file location. DrContinued downloading for [http://www. Egan fixed systems requirements to run the GovTrack Web Crawleredegan. Made significant progress on the Kuwait Web Crawlercom/Driver for the Middle East Studies Departmentwiki/Tiger_Geocoder TIGER Geocoder].

2017-11/4/2016: 12:00-1413:00: Continued to download Moroccan data in the background. Finished writing initial Kuwait Web Crawler/Driver for the Middle East Studies Department. Middle East Studies Department asked for additional embedded files in the Kuwait website. Built [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web DriverDemo_Day_Page_Parser Demo Day Page Parser].

2017-11/8/2016: 15:00-1809:00: Continued to download Moroccan data in the backgroundRunning demo version of Demo Day crawler (Accelerator Google Crawler). Finished writing code for the embedded files on the Kuwait Site. Spent time debugging the frame errors due to the dynamically generated content. Never found an answer to the bug, and instead found a workaround that sacrificed run time for the ability to Fixing worklog format. [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web Driver]

2017-11/10/2016 13:00-1807:00: Continued to download Moroccan data Created file with 0s and Kuwait data in 1s detailing whether crunchbase has the backgroundfounder information for an accelerator. Began work Details posted as a TODO on [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Google_Scholar_Crawler Google Scholar CrawlerAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List]page. Wrote a crawler Still waiting for feedback on the PostGIS installation from [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator ProjectTiger_Geocoder Tiger Geocoder] to get the HTML files of hundreds of accelerators. The crawler ended up failing; it appears to have been due to HTTPSContinued working on Accelerator Google Crawler.

2017-11/11/2016 12:00-206:00Contacted Geography Center for the US Census Bureau, [https: Continued to download Moroccan data in the background//www.census.gov/geo/about/contact.html here], and began email exchange on PostGIS installation problems. Attempted to find bug fixes for Began working on the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Selenium_Documentation Selenium Documentation]. Also began working on an Accelerator Project] crawlerGoogle Crawler that will be used with Yang and ML to find Demo Days for cohort companies.

2017-11/15/2016 15:00-1801:00Attempted to continue downloading, however ran into HTTP Forbidden errors. Listed the errors on the [http: Finished download of Moroccan Written Question pdfs//www. Wrote a parser with Christy to be used for parsing bills from Congress and eventually executive ordersedegan. Found bug in the system Python that was worked out and rebootedcom/wiki/Tiger_Geocoder Tiger Geocoder Page].

11/17/2016 13:002017-10-1831:00: Wrote a crawler to retrieve information about executive orders, and their corresponding pdfs. They can be found Began downloading blocks of data for individual states for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/E%26I_Governance_Policy_Report hereTiger_Geocoder Tiger Geocoder] project.] Next step is to run code to convert Wrote out the pdfs new wiki page for installation, and beginning to text files, then use the parser fixed by Christywrite documentation on usage.

11/18/2016 12:002017-10-2:0030: Converted Executive Order PDFs With Ed's help, was able to text files using adobe acrobat DCget the national data from Tiger installed onto a database server. See The process required much jumping around and changing users, and all the things we learned are outlined in [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/E%26I_Governance_Policy_Report WikipageDatabase_Server_Documentation#Editing_Users the database server documentation] for detailsunder "Editing Users".

11/22/2016 15:002017-10-1825:00: Transferred downloaded Morocco Written Bills to provided SeaGate Drive. Made a "gentle" F6S crawler to retrieve HTMLs of possible accelerator pages documented Continued working on the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) herePostGIS_Installation TigerCoder Installation].

11/29/2016 15:002017-10-1824:00: Began pulling data from Throw some addresses into a database, use address normalizer and geocoder. May need to install things. Details on the installation process can be found on the accelerators listed [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) herePostGIS_Installation PostGIS Installation page]. Made text files for about 18 accelerators.

12/1/2016 13:002017-10-18:0023: Continued making text files Finished Yelp crawler for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]. Built tool for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/E%26I_Governance_Policy_Report E&I Governance Report Houston_Innovation_District Houston Innovation District Project] with Christy. Adds a column of data that shows whether or not the bill has been passed.

12/2/2016 12:002017-10-1419:00: Built and ran web Continued work on Yelp crawler for Center for Middle East Studies on Kuwait. Continued making text files for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List projectHouston_Innovation_District Houston Innovation District Project].

12/6/2016 15:002017-10-18:00: Learned how to use git. Committed software projects from the semester to the McNair git repository. Projects can be found at; [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/E%26I_Governance_Policy_Report Executive Order Crawler], [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Foreign Government Web Crawlers], Continued work on Yelp crawler for [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) F6S Crawler and ParserHouston_Innovation_DistrictHouston Innovation District Project].

12/7/2016 15:002017-10-1817:00: Continued making text files Constructed ArcGIS maps for the agglomeration project. Finished maps of points for every year in the [http://mcnairstate of California.bakerinstituteFinished maps of Route 128.org/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]Began working on selenium Yelp crawler to get cafe locations within the 610-loop.

12/8/2016 14:002017-10-1816:00: Continued making text files for Assisted Harrison on the [http://mcnairUSITC project.bakerinstituteLooked for natural language processing tools to extract complaintants and defendants along with their location from case files.org/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]Experimented with pulling based on parts of speech tags, as well as using geotext or geograpy to pull locations from a case segment.

1/2017-10/2017 14:30-17:15: Continued making text files for the [http13://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List Updated various project]. Downloaded pdfs in the background for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project]pages.

1/11/2017 -10:00-12:00: Continued making text files for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List work on Patent Thicket project, awaiting further project]. Downloaded pdfs in the background for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project]specs.

1/12/2017 14:30-17:4510-05: Continued making text files Emergency ArcGIS creation for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List Agglomeration project]. Downloaded pdfs in the background for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project].

1/17/2017 14:30-17:1510-04: Continued making text files Emergency ArcGIS creation for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List Agglomeration project]. Downloaded pdfs in the background for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project].

1/18/2017 -10:00-1202:00: Downloaded pdfs in the background Worked on ArcGIS data. See Harrison's Work Log for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project]details.

1/19/2017 14:30- 17:45: Downloaded pdfs in the background for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project]. Created parser for the [http09-28://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project], completed creation of final data set(yay!). Began working on cohort parserAdded collaborative editing feature to PyCharm.

1/23/2017 10:00-12:0009-27: Worked on parser for cohort data of the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]. Preliminary code is written, working on debuggingbig database file.

1/24/2017 14-09-25:30New task --17:15: Worked on parser for cohort data of the Create text file with company, description, and company type.#[http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List projectVC_Database_Rebuild VC Database Rebuild]. Cohort data file created#psql vcdb2#table name, debugging is almost complete. Will begin work on the google accelerator search soon.sdccompanybasecore2#Combine with Crunchbasebulk

1/25/2017 10#TODO:00-12:00: Finished parser for cohort data of the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/Write wiki on linkedin crawler, write wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]. Some data files still need proofreading as they are not in an acceptable format. Began working on Google sitesearch projectcreating accounts.

1/26/2017 14:30-1709-21:45: Continued working Wrote wiki on Google sitesearch project. Discovered crunchbaseLinkedin crawler, changed met with Laura about patents project priority. Priority 1, split accelerator data up by flag, priority 2, use crunchbase to get web urls for cohorts, priority 3, make internet archive wayback machine driver. Located [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Whois_Parser Whois Parser].

1/30/2017 10:00-12:0009-20: Optimized enclosing circle algorithm through memoizationFinished running linkedin crawler. Developed script Transferred data to read addresses from accelerator data and return latitude and longitude coordinatesRDP. Will write wikis next.

1/31/2017 14:30-17:1509-19: Built WayBack Machine Crawler. Updated documentation for coordinates scriptBegan running linkedin crawler. Updated profile page to include locations of codeHelped Yang create RDP account, get permissions, and get wiki setup.

2/1/2017 10:00-12:0009-18:Finished implementation of Experience Crawler, continued working on Education Crawler for LinkedIn.

2017-09-14: Continued implementing LinkedIn Crawler for profiles. 2017-09-13: Implemented LinkedIn Crawler for main portion of profiles. Began working on crawling Experience section of profiles. 2017-09-12: Continued working on the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler for Accelerator Founders Data]. Added to the wiki on this topic. 2017-09-11: Continued working on the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler for Accelerator Founders Data].  2017-09-06: Combined founders data retrieved with the Crunchbase API with the crunchbasebulk data to get linkedin urls for different accelerator founders. For more information, see [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Crunchbase_Data here]. 2017-09-05: Post Harvey. Finished retrieving names from the Crunchbase API on founders. Next step is to query crunchbase bulk database to get linkedin urls. For more information, see [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Crunchbase_Data here]. 2017-08-24: Began using the Crunchbase API to retrieve founder information for accelerators. Halfway through compiling a dictionary that translates accelerator names into proper Crunchbase API URLs. 2017-08-23: Decided with Ed to abandon LinkedIn crawling to retrieve accelerator founder data, and instead use crunchbase. Spent the day navigating the crunchbasebulk database, and seeing what useful information was contained in it. 2017-08-22: Discovered that LinkedIn Profiles cannot be viewed through LinkedIn if the target is 3rd degree or further. However, if entering LinkedIn through a Google search, the profile can still be viewed if the user has previously logged into LinkedIn. Devising a workaround crawler that utilizes Google search. Continued blog post [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) here] under Section 4. 2017-08-21: Began work on extracting founders for accelerators through LinkedIn Crawler. Discovered that Python3 is not installed on RDP, so the virtual environment for the project cannot be fired up. Continued working on Ubuntu machine.</onlyinclude> ===Spring 2017=== 2017-05-01: Continued work on HTML Parser. Uploaded all semester projects to git server. 2017-04-20: Finished the HTML Parser for the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler]. Ran HTML parser on accelerator founders. Data is stored in projects/accelerators/LinkedIn Founder Data. 2017-04-19: Made updates to the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler] Wikipage. Ran LinkedIn Crawler on accelerator data. Working on an html parser for the results from the LinkedIn Crawler. 2017-04-18: Ran LinkedIn Crawler on matches between Crunchbase Snapshot and the accelerator data. 2017-04-17: Worked on ways to get correct search results from the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler]. Worked on an HTML Parser for the results from the LinkedIn Crawler. 2017-04-13: Worked on debugging the logout procedure for the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler]. Began formulation of process to search for founders of startups using a combination of the LinkedIn Crawler with the data resources from the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Crunchbase_2013_Snapshot CrunchBase Snapshot]. 2017-04-12: Work on bugs with the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler]. 2017-04-11: Completed functional [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) crawler of LinkedIn Recruiter Pro]. Basic search functions work and download profile information for a given person.  2017-04-10: Began writing functioning crawler of LinkedIn.  2017-04-06: Continued working on debugging and documenting the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler]. Wrote a test program that logs in, searches for a query, navigates through search pages, and logs out. Recruiter program can now login and search. 2017-04-05: Began work on the LinkedIn Crawler. Researched on launching Python Virtual Environment. 2017-04-03: Finished debugging points for the Enclosing Circle Algorithm. Added Command Line functionality to the Industry Classifier. 2017-03-29: Worked on debugging points for the Enclosing Circle Algorithm. 2017-03-28: Finished running the Enclosing Circle Algorithm. Worked on removing incorrect points from the data set(see above).  2017-03-27: Worked on debugging the Enclosing Circle Algorithm. Implemented a way to remove interior circles, and determined that translation to latitude and longitude coordinates resulted in slightly off center circles. 2017-03-23: Finished debugging the brute force algorithm for [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm]. Implemented a method to plot the points and circles on a graph. Analyzed runtime of the brute force algorithm. 2017-03-21: Coded a brute force algorithm for the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm]. 2017-03-20: Worked on debugging the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm]. 2017-03-09: Continued running [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] on the Top 50 Cities. Finished script to draw Enclosing Circles on a Google Map. 2017-03-08: Continued running [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] on the Top 50 Cities. Created script to draw outcome of the Enclosing Circle Algorithm on Google Maps. 2017-03-07: Redetermined the top 50 cities which Enclosing Circle should be run on. Data on the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Top_Cities_for_VC_Backed_Companies Top 50 Cities for VC Backed Companies can be found here.] Ran [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] on the Top 50 Cities. 2017-03-06: Ran script to determine the top 50 cities which Enclosing Circle should be run on. Fixed the VC Circles script to take in a new data format. 2017-03-02: Cleaned up data for the VC Circles Project. Created histogram of data in Excel. See [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] Project. Began work on the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/LinkedInCrawlerPython LinkedIn Crawler]. 2017-03-01: Created statistics for the VC Circles Project. 2017-02-28: Finished downloading geocoded data for VC Data as part of the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] Project. Found bug in Enclosing Circle Algorithm. 2017-02-27: Continued to download geocoded data for VC Data as part of the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] Project. Assisted work on the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Industry_Classifier Industry Classifier]. 2017-02-23: Continued to download geocoded data for VC Data as part of the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] Project. Installed C++ Compiler for Python. Ran tests on difference between Python and C wrapped Python. 2017-02-22: Continued to download geocoded data for VC Data as part of the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] Project. Helped out with [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Industry_Classifier Industry Classifier Project]. 2017-02-21: Continued to download geocoded data for VC Data as part of the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] Project. Researched into C++ Compilers for Python so that the Enclosing Circle Algorithm could be wrapped in C. Found a recommended one [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266 here]. 2017-02-20: Continued to download geocoded data for VC Data as part of the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] Project. Assisted work on the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Industry_Classifier Industry Classifier]. 2017-02-16: Reworked [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] to create a file of geocoded data. Began work on wrapping the algorithm in C to improve speed. 2017-02-15: Finished [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] applied to the VC study. Enclosing Circle algorithm still needs adjustment, but the program runs with the temporary fixes. 2017-02-14: Worked on the application of the Enclosing Circle algorithm to the VC study. Working on bug fixes in the Enclosing Circle algorithm. Created wiki page for the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm]. 2017-02-13: Worked on Neural Net for the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Industry_Classifier Industry Classifier Project]. 2017-02-08: Worked on Neural Net for the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Industry_Classifier Industry Classifier Project]. 2017-02-07: Fixed bugs in parse_cohort_data.py, the script for parsing the cohort data from the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]. Added descriptive statistics to cohort data excel file. 2017-02-02: Out sick, independent research and work from RDP. Brief research into the [http://jorgeg.scripts.mit.edu/homepage/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Guzman-Stern-State-of-American-Entrepreneurship-FINAL.pdf Stern-Guzman algorithm]. Research into [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/interactive_maps Interactive Maps]. No helpful additions to map embedding problem. 2017-02-01: Notes from Session with Ed: Project on US university patenting and entrepreneurship programs (writing code to identify universities in assignees), search Wikipedia (XML then bulk download), student pop, faculty pop, etc.

2/2/2017 14-01-31:Built WayBack Machine Crawler. Updated documentation for coordinates script. Updated profile page to include locations of code.  2017-01-30: Optimized enclosing circle algorithm through memoization. Developed script to read addresses from accelerator data and return latitude and longitude coordinates. 2017-1501-26:45: Out sickContinued working on Google sitesearch project. Discovered crunchbase, changed project priority. Priority 1, split accelerator data up by flag, priority 2, use crunchbase to get web urls for cohorts, priority 3, independent research and work from RDP make internet archive wayback machine driver. Brief research into the Located [http://jorgegwww.scriptsedegan.mit.educom/homepagewiki/wpWhois_Parser Whois Parser].  2017-01-content25: Finished parser for cohort data of the [http:/uploads/2016www.edegan.com/03wiki/GuzmanAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]. Some data files still need proofreading as they are not in an acceptable format. Began working on Google sitesearch project. 2017-Stern-State01-24: Worked on parser for cohort data of-American-Entrepreneurship-FINALthe [http://www.edegan.pdf Stern-Guzman algorithmcom/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]. Research into Cohort data file created, debugging is almost complete. Will begin work on the google accelerator search soon. 2017-01-23: Worked on parser for cohort data of the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/interactive_maps Interactive MapsAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]. No helpful additions to map embedding problemPreliminary code is written, working on debugging.

2/7/2017 14:30-1701-19:15: Fixed bugs Downloaded pdfs in parse_cohort_data.py, the script background for parsing the cohort data from [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project]. Created parser for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project], completed creation of final data set(yay!). Added descriptive statistics to Began working on cohort data excel fileparser.

2/8/2017 10:00-1201-18:00 Worked on Neural Net Downloaded pdfs in the background for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Industry_Classifier Industry Classifier Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project].

2/2017-01-13/2017 10:00-12Continued making text files for the [http:00 Worked on Neural Net //www.edegan.com/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]. Downloaded pdfs in the background for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Industry_Classifier Industry Classifier Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project].

2/14/2017 14:30-1701-12:15Continued making text files for the [http: Worked on the application of the Enclosing Circle algorithm to the VC study//www.edegan.com/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]. Working on bug fixes Downloaded pdfs in the Enclosing Circle algorithm. Created wiki page background for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmMoroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project].

2/15/2017: 10:00-1201-11:00: Finished Continued making text files for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project] applied to the VC study. Enclosing Circle algorithm still needs adjustment, but Downloaded pdfs in the program runs with background for the temporary fixes[http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project].

2/16/2017 14:30-1701-10:45: Reworked Continued making text files for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project] to create a file of geocoded data. Began work on wrapping Downloaded pdfs in the algorithm in C to improve speedbackground for the [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Government Crawler Project].

2/21/2017 14:30- 17:15: Continued to download geocoded data for VC Data as part of the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] Project. Researched into C++ Compilers for Python so that the Enclosing Circle Algorithm could be wrapped in C. Found a recommended one [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266 here].==Fall 2016===

2/22/2017 10:002016-12:00-08: Continued to download geocoded data making text files for VC Data as part of the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] Project. Helped out with [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Industry_Classifier Industry Classifier ProjectAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project].

2/23/2017 14:302016-12-17:4507: Continued to download geocoded data making text files for VC Data as part of the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project] Project. Installed C++ Compiler for Python. Ran tests on difference between Python and C wrapped Python.

2/27/2017 10:002016-12-06:00: Continued Learned how to use git. Committed software projects from the semester to download geocoded data for VC Data as part of the McNair git repository. Projects can be found at; [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmE%26I_Governance_Policy_Report Executive Order Crawler] Project, [http://www. Assisted work on the edegan.com/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Foreign Government Web Crawlers], [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Industry_Classifier Industry ClassifierAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) F6S Crawler and Parser].

2/28/2017 14:302016-12-1702:15: Finished downloading geocoded data Built and ran web crawler for Center for Middle East Studies on Kuwait. Continued making text files for VC Data as part of the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project] Project. Found bug in Enclosing Circle Algorithm.

3/1/2017 10:002016-12-01:00Continued making text files for the [http: Created statistics //www.edegan.com/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Seed List project]. Built tool for the VC Circles [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/E%26I_Governance_Policy_Report E&I Governance Report Project] with Christy. Adds a column of data that shows whether or not the bill has been passed.

3/2/2017 14:302016-11-1729:45: Cleaned up Began pulling data for from the VC Circles Project. Created histogram of data in Excel. See accelerators listed [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) here] Project. Began work on the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/LinkedInCrawlerPython LinkedIn Crawler]Made text files for about 18 accelerators.

3/6/2017 10:002016-11-1222:00: Ran script Transferred downloaded Morocco Written Bills to determine the top 50 cities which Enclosing Circle should be run onprovided SeaGate Drive. Fixed the VC Circles script Made a "gentle" F6S crawler to take in a new data formatretrieve HTMLs of possible accelerator pages documented [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) here].

3/7/2017 14:302016-11-17:1518: Redetermined the top 50 cities which Enclosing Circle should be run onConverted Executive Order PDFs to text files using adobe acrobat DC. Data on the See [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Top_Cities_for_VC_Backed_Companies Top 50 Cities E%26I_Governance_Policy_Report Wikipage] for VC Backed Companies can be found here.] Ran [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] on the Top 50 Citiesdetails.

3/8/2017 10:002016-11-1217:00: Continued running Wrote a crawler to retrieve information about executive orders, and their corresponding pdfs. They can be found [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmE%26I_Governance_Policy_Report here.] on Next step is to run code to convert the Top 50 Cities. Created script pdfs to draw outcome of text files, then use the Enclosing Circle Algorithm on Google Mapsparser fixed by Christy.

3/9/2017 14:302016-11-1715:45: Continued running [http://mcnairFinished download of Moroccan Written Question pdfs.bakerinstituteWrote a parser with Christy to be used for parsing bills from Congress and eventually executive orders.org/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm] on Found bug in the Top 50 Cities. Finished script to draw Enclosing Circles on a Google Mapsystem Python that was worked out and rebooted.

3/20/2017 10:002016-11-1211:00: Worked on debugging Continued to download Moroccan data in the background. Attempted to find bug fixes for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Project]crawler.

3/21/2017 14:302016-11-1710:15Continued to download Moroccan data and Kuwait data in the background. Began work on [http: Coded //www.edegan.com/wiki/Google_Scholar_Crawler Google Scholar Crawler]. Wrote a brute force algorithm crawler for the [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmAccelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator Project]to get the HTML files of hundreds of accelerators. The crawler ended up failing; it appears to have been due to HTTPS.

3/23/2017 14:302016-11- 17:4508: Continued to download Moroccan data in the background. Finished writing code for the embedded files on the Kuwait Site. Spent time debugging the brute force algorithm frame errors due to the dynamically generated content. Never found an answer to the bug, and instead found a workaround that sacrificed run time for the ability to work. [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/Enclosing_Circle_Algorithm Enclosing Circle AlgorithmMoroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web Driver]. Implemented a method to plot the points and circles on a graph. Analyzed runtime of the brute force algorithm.

3/27/2017 10:002016-11-1204:00: Worked on debugging Continued to download Moroccan data in the background. Finished writing initial Kuwait Web Crawler/Driver for the Enclosing Circle AlgorithmMiddle East Studies Department. Implemented a way to remove interior circles, and determined that translation to latitude and longitude coordinates resulted Middle East Studies Department asked for additional embedded files in slightly off center circlesthe Kuwait website. [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web Driver]

3/28/2017 14:302016-11- 1703:15: Finished running Continued to download Moroccan data in the background. Dr. Egan fixed systems requirements to run the Enclosing Circle AlgorithmGovTrack Web Crawler. Worked Made significant progress on removing incorrect points from the data set(see above)Kuwait Web Crawler/Driver for the Middle East Studies Department.

3/29/2017 10:002016-11-1201:00Continued to download Moroccan data in the background. Went over code for GovTracker Web Crawler, continued learning Perl. [http: Worked on debugging points for the Enclosing Circle Algorithm//www.edegan.com/wiki/Govtrack_Webcrawler_(Wiki_Page) GovTrack Web Crawler] Began Kuwait Web Crawler/Driver.

4/3/2017 2016-10:00-1221:00: Finished debugging points Continued to download data for the Enclosing Circle AlgorithmMoroccan Parliament Written and Oral Questions. Added Command Line functionality Looked over [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Christy_Warden_(Twitter_Crawler_Application_1) Christy's Twitter Crawler] to see how I can be helpful. Dr. Egan asked me to think about how to potentially make multiple tools to get cohorts and other sorts of data from accelerator sites. See [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data) Accelerator List] He also asked me to look at the Industry Classifier[http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Govtrack_Webcrawler_(Wiki_Page) GovTrack Web Crawler] for potential ideas on how to bring this project to fruition.

4/5/2017 9:452016-10-1120:45: Began work on Continued to download data for the LinkedIn CrawlerMoroccan Parliament Written and Oral Questions. Updated Wiki page. Researched Started working on launching Python Virtual EnvironmentTwitter project with Christy. [http://www.edegan.com/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web Driver]

4/6/2017 14:002016-10-1718:15: Continued working on debugging Finished code for Oral Questions web driver and Written Questions web driver using selenium. Now, the data for the dates of questions can be found using the crawler, and documenting the pdfs of the questions will be downloaded using selenium. [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn CrawlerMoroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web Driver]. Wrote a test program that logs in, searches for a query, navigates through search pages, and logs out. Recruiter program can now login and search.

4/2016-10/2017 10:00-1214:00Finished Oral Questions crawler. Finished Written Questions crawler. Waiting for further details on whether that data needs to be tweaked in any way. Updated the Moroccan Web Driver/Web Crawler wiki page. [http: Began writing functioning crawler of LinkedIn//www.edegan. com/wiki/Moroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web Driver]

4/11/2017 14:302016-10-17:1513: Completed functional download of Moroccan Bills. Working on either a web driver screenshot approach or a webcrawler approach to download the Moroccan oral and written questions data. Began building Web Crawler for Oral and Written Questions site. Edited Moroccan Web Driver/Crawler wiki page. [http://mcnairwww.bakerinstituteedegan.orgcom/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) crawler of LinkedIn Recruiter ProMoroccan_Parliament_Web_Crawler Moroccan Web Driver]. Basic search functions work and download profile information for a given person.

4/12/2017 2016-10:00-12:0011: Work on bugs Fixed arabic bug, files can now be saved with the [http://mcnairarabic titles. Monarchy bills downloaded and ready for shipment. House of Representatives Bill mostly downloaded, ratified bills prepared for download.bakerinstituteStarted learning scrapy library in python for web scraping.org/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler]Discussed idea of screenshot-ing questions instead of scraping.

4/13/2017 14:302016-10-1707:45: Worked Learned unicode and utf8 encoding and decoding in arabic. Still working on debugging the logout procedure for the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler]. Began formulation of process to search for founders of startups using a combination of the LinkedIn Crawler with the data resources from the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Crunchbase_2013_Snapshot CrunchBase Snapshot]transforming an ascii url into printable unicode.

4/17/2017 2016-10:00-1206:00: Worked on ways Discussed with Dr. Elbadawy about the desired file names for Moroccan data download. The consensus was that the bill programs are ready to launch once the files can be named properly, and the questions data must be retrieved using a web crawler which I need to learn how to get correct search results implement. The naming of files is currently drawing errors in going from the [http://mcnairarabic, to url, to download, to filename.bakerinstituteDebugging in process.org/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler]Also built a demo selenium program for Dr. Worked Egan that drives the McNair blog site on an HTML Parser for the results from the LinkedIn Crawlerinfinite loop.

4/18/2017 14:302016-10-1703:15: Ran LinkedIn Crawler Moroccan Web Driver projects completed for driving of the Monarchy proposed bills, the House of Representatives proposed bills, and the Ratified bills sites. Begun process of devising a naming system for the files that does not require scraping. Tinkered with naming through regular expression parsing of the URL. Structure for the oral questions and written questions drivers is set up, but need fixes due to the differences in the sites. Fixed bug on matches between Crunchbase Snapshot McNair wiki for women's biz team where email was plain text instead of an email link. Took a glimpse at Kuwait Parliament website, and it appears to be very different from the accelerator dataMoroccan setup.

4/19/2017 10:002016-09-1230:00: Made updates Selenium program selects view pdf option from the website, and goes to the [http://mcnairpdf webpage.bakerinstituteProgram then switches handle to the new page.org/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler] WikipageCTRL S is sent to the page to launch save dialog window. Text cannot be sent to this window. Ran LinkedIn Crawler on accelerator dataBrainstorm ways around this issue. Working on an html parser Explored Chrome Options for the results from the LinkedIn Crawlersaving automatically without a dialog window. Looking into other libraries besides selenium that may help.

4/20/2017 142016-09-29:30Re-17:45: Finished enroll in Microsoft Remote Desktop with proper authentication, set up Selenium environment and Komodo IDE on Remote Desktop, wrote program using Selenium that goes to a link and opens up the HTML Parser print dialog box. Developed computational recipe for a different approach to the [http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/LinkedIn_Crawler_(Python) LinkedIn Crawler]. Ran HTML parser on accelerator founders. Data is stored in projects/accelerators/LinkedIn Founder Dataproblem.

5/1/2017 13:002016-09-17:0026: Continued Set up Staff wiki page, work log page; registered for Slack, Microsoft Remote Desktop; downloaded Selenium on HTML Parserpersonal computer, read Selenium docs. Uploaded all semester projects to git serverCreated wiki page for Moroccan Web Driver Project.

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