Matthew Ringheanu (Work Log)
10/17/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: 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 what I believe it is and included some helpful links
10/18/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: 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 listed these steps on the wiki
10/19/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Finished looking on the remaining accelerator websites and wrote the steps on determining how to manually locate the cohorts.
10/20/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Met with Peter and Christy to discuss the possibility of creating a web crawler that will pull data from individual accelerator sites.
10/24/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Brainstormed with Albert and Julia about changes to the category name for SBDE. Spoke to Ed about full scope of accelerator project.
10/25/2016 4:00-6:00 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.
10/26/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: 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
10/27/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Continued searching for relevant lists of accelerators to include on our page. Added some links that have high potential under the tab (Obtained from List of Accelerators or various Google searches).
10/31/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Began constructing a list of variables that clearly distinguish an accelerator on its website. This is in an effort to allow a crawler to crawl through many Google searches and identify accelerators.
11/1/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Continued looking for variables that could identify accelerators from their websites. Searched through numerous different websites of accelerators obtained from our current databases.
11/2/2016 2:00-4:00 pm: Continued combing through websites of numerous accelerators, well-known and other, in the hopes of finding identifying variables.
11/3/2016 4:00-6:00 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.
11/7/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Began compiling the list of all accelerators. Created a new TextPad document with information from a new database.
11/8/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Worked with Shrey and Ben in order to compile all of our accelerator databases into one long list on Textpad.
11/9/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Continued formulating a database for all accelerators and all of the available info given.
11/10/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Worked with Shrey and Peter in order to develop a crawler for f6s.
11/14/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Began sorting the Seed-DB database in an Excel document.
11/15/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Conducted some Google searches in an attempt to find more accelerator databases. Began looking through Executive Orders searching for keywords.
11/16/2016 2:00-5:00 pm: Completed searching through Executive Orders.
11/17/2016 4:00-6:00 pm: Continued working on Google searches for state accelerator list. Looked through f6s 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.
11/28/2016 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 4:00-6:00 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 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 20.
12/8/2016 1:00-3:00 pm: Completed collecting data from accelerators for the semester.
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.
