Veeral Shah (Work Log)
2016
06/01/2016 - Set Up Work Log Page
06/02/2016 - Project refinement and reorganization
06/03/2016 - Public Wiki Page Development
06/06/2016 - Public Wiki Page Refinement and InfoBox creating
06/07/2016 - Current Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy Wiki Page
06/08/2016 - Current Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy Wiki Page cont. (specific state policies)
06/09/2016 - References
06/10/2016 - State Policies and Bill Process
06/13/2016 - Regional Cluster Policy
06/14/2016 - Regional Cluster Policy cont. and Accelerator Data compiling
06/15/2016 - Accelerator Data compiling and organizing
06/16/2016 - Accelerator Data compiling and organizing/introducing and planning academic papers with PHD students
06/17/2016 - Completing the collection of Accelerator Data
2017
06/05/2017 - First day of work of the summer. Began reading and deciphering the Seed Accelerator Project notes and files. Started writing my plan for the project this summer under Discussion on the Seed Accelerator Project page.
06/06/2017 - Continued attempting to understand Seed Accelerator Project, Matcher, and files in the Accelerator folder
06/07/2017 - Transferred organizations, cleaned cohort data and other important accelerator data to Access.
06/08/2017 - Cleaned up data in Accelerator file by getting rid of unnecessary information, indicating important data, and organizing the different files both in the Accelerator folder as well as in Access
06/09/2017 - Organized and updated current Accelerator list with potential Accelerator list into Organizations.accdb Access database.
06/12/2017 - Matched the current Accelerator list with Potential Accelerator list in Organizations Access Database.
06/13/2017 - Started going through "new" potential accelerators obtained from going through the current and potential "accelerator match" Excel file.
06/14/2017 - Discovered Global Accelerator Network site (Goldmine!) which has several Accelerators we do not have. Going through html to find a method for crawling through the site.