Work Logs
Work Logs are broken down within two divisions of McNair Center, the long-term deliverables of academic papers and short-term deliverables of general content. Individuals working within a division will be listed under the respective one. In case an individual works within both divisions, they will be listed in both locations.
Academic Papers
Content
Dylan Dickens
2018-03-06:Troubleshot Key Terms program with Christy, continued to read articles.
2018-03-05: Tested the Key Terms program, found it not to be working. Troubleshot and alerted Christy.
2018-03-01: Started to read articles for key-terms testing.
2018-02-28: Adjusted some wiki pages, started testing the revamped tools.
2018-02-27: Drafted email with concerns to Ed, met with Ed to resolve concerns. Created action plan of testing the revamped tools and codifying a subset of known papers.
2018-02-26: Reviewed Christy's new documentation, prepared to meet with Ed.
2018-02-22: Tested RegEx-Excel Filter process, flagged some additional questions that need guidance from Ed. Met with Christy and worked to resolve coding issues.
2018-02-21: Finished RegEx-Excel Filter process, spoke with Ed about long-term goals of project.
2018-02-20: Continued working on the RegEx-Excel filter.
2018-02-19: Continued working on the RegEx-Excel filter.
2018-02-15: Started developing a RegEx and Excel filter for processing and cross-referencing sources.
2018-02-14: Identified the status of all codes. Drafted an email to Christy about retunring temporarily to help with the codes.
2018-02-13: Ran the KeyTerms and PDF Converter Python Codes.
2018-02-12: Finished troubleshooting crawler, reached out to Ed for guidance. Was redirected to testing Key Terms code.
2018-02-07: Troubleshot the crawler with Christy.
2018-02-06: Troubleshot the crawler with Christy.
2018-02-05: Reached out to Ed for guidance, was redirected to testing the scholar crawler.
2018-02-01: Continued PDF - BibTex filtering
2018-01-31: Started PDF - BibTex filtering process as per meetings with Christy and Lauren.
2018-01-30: Met with both Christy and Lauren.
2018-01-29: Reviewed the current state of PTLR project in order to prepare for meetings on Tuesday.
2018-01-26: Assisted with the McNair Center Event.
2018-01-25: Reached out to previous project owners to gather information for next steps. Was on standby to assist with the Lyceum Research Page
2018-01-24: Searched for tools to accomplish the strategies outlined in Patent Thicket Strategic Planning. Had a hard time locating anything, or getting a good grasp on where exactly the project is and what it needs. Gathered contact information for previous owners to make communications later this week. Also continued to prep the Lyceum Research Page for Ed.
2018-01-23: Finished Patent Thicket Strategic Planning and sent to Ed. Ed approved.
2018-01-22: Read Patent Thicket literature. Met with Ed to discuss broad strategy, began planning for next steps. Patent Thicket Strategic Planning
2018-01-18: Met with Ed to discuss Patent Thicket Project. Helped complete his research for the Amazon HQ2 Report.
2018-01-11: Finalized sourcing for Venture Capital Gap for Women
2018-01-10: Sourced all of Venture Capital Gap for Women, downloaded PDF's for about 3/4 of sources
2018-01-09: Found additional sources on the Venture Capital Gap for Women, as well as Fondren availability for a portion of the sources.
Jake Silberman
Jake Silberman Work Logs (log page)
Marcela Interiano
Marcela Interiano Work Logs (log page)
Veeral Shah
Veeral Shah Work Logs (log page)
Ariel Sun
Ariel Sun Work Logs (log page)
Gunny Liu
Gunny Liu Work Logs (Work Log)
Ben Baldazo
contributing Projects
Crunchbase Data / Accelerator Seed List (Data) : Combined this data in a table discussed on Crunchbase Data
Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project
Houston Accelerators and Incubators (Report)
worklog
2017-11-21: Worked with Ed to set up all of the ground work to begin joining tables for the purpose stated in yesterday's work log. Should be able to finish it upon returning next week, but until then, notes are all held within "Z:\bulk\crunchbase\AccFunding.psql" with the important parts under the header of "From Ed on 21st of Nov. To finish on Nov 27" 2017-11-20: Attempting to link 3 tables from psql crunchbasebulk to find accelerators that have invested in companies. Likely found success with the table "Acc_Funded_Cos" but the investor column is dirty, thus trying to do it cleaner with the aforementioned 3 table link
- This is all noted in "Z:\bulk\crunchbase\AccFunding.psql" and the code for "Acc_Funded_Cos" is emphasized
2017-09-25: Followed Talk:Ben Baldazo (Work Log) to create documentation infrastructure for Augusta Startup Ecosystem
Shoeb Mohammed
Shoeb Mohammed Work Logs Work Log page
James Chen
James Chen Work Logs (log page)
Todd Rachowin
Todd Rachowin Work Logs (log page)
Amir Kazempour
Amir Kazempour Work Logs (log page)
Albert Nabiullin
Albert Nabiullin Work Logs (log page)
Carlin Cherry
Carlin Cherry Work Logs (log page)
Julia Wang
Julia Wang Work Logs (log page)
12/4-12/8 finalizing University Patents report
- 12/4 9-12 edits, sent to Ed, confirming catering for party
- 12/5 9-12 final edits, sent to Ed
- 12/6 1-4 making City Agglomeration graphics
- 12/7 1-3 wrapping up everything
11/27-12/1
- 11/27 10-12 edits, sent to Ed
- 11/29 10-12 catering order for lunch party, wiki page organization
- 11/30 2:30-4:30 edits
- 12/1 10-12 met with Ed, edits
11/20-11/22
- 11/20 10-12 edits
- 11/21 10-12 met with Ed, edits
- 11/22 10-12 met with Ed, edits
11/13-11/17 deadline 11/16 final draft
- 11/13 10-12 redoing reg table
- 11/14 10-12 edits
- 11/15 10-12:30 edits
- 11/16 2:30-4 met with Ed, edits
- 11/17 10-12 edits
11/6-11/10 deadline 11/16 final draft
- 11/6 10-12 4th draft
- 11/8 10-12 met with Ed, editing
- 11/9 2:30-5:30 redoing graphs, restructuring introduction
- 11/10 10-12, 3-4:30 redoing charts, rewriting body
10/30-11/3 deadline 11/16 final draft
- 10/30 10-12 revisions
- 10/31 10-12 revisions
- 11/1 10-12 revisions, new data for basic funding
- 11/2 10-12 revisions
10/23-10/27
- 10/23 10-12 editing University Patents
- 10/24 10-12 reran regressions, fixed problem with Cornell!
- 10/25 10-12 sent 2nd draft to Anne
- 10/26 2:30-4:30 revisions
- 10/27 10-12 sent 3rd draft
10/16-10/20
- 10/16 10-12 pulled Houston patent addresses
- 10/17 10-12 pulled Houston patent addresses
- 10/18 10-12 edited University Patents
- 10/19 2:30-4:30 edited University Patents, tabled patent database reorganization until it is cleaned by Oliver/Shelby/Ed
- 10/20 10-12 edited University Patents
10/11-10/13
- 10/11 10-12 pulling Houston patents
- 10/12 10-12 University patents, sent draft to Anne
10/2-10/6
- 10/2 10-12 work on University Patents draft, close to sending
- 10/3 10-12 Distracted by Augusta project, Reorganizing patent database
- 10/4 10-12 Reorganizing whole patent database by city, state, pulling Crunchbase data for Augusta
- 10/5 2:15-2:45 Augusta patents
- 10/6 10-12 Reorganizing patents, figure out misspellings
9/25-9/29 finish draft
- 9/25 10-12 remaking charts
- 9/26 10-12 data pull for Augusta University
- 9/27 10-12 data pull for Augusta University
- 9/29 10-12 reran log regressions
9/18-9/22/2017
- 9/18 10-12 cleaning data
- 9/19 10-12 cleaning data
- 9/20 10-12 created time-series data set
- 9/21 2:30-4 reran regressions
- 9/22 10-12, 2-3 remade charts
9/11-9/15/2017 Deadline: 9/15 - convert data to time-series, new charts
- 9/11 10-12 Converting to time-series
- 9/12 10-12 Check accuracy, converting to time-series, talked to Jeemin about next project
- 9/13 10-12 Fix R&D data, previous SQL code
- 9/14 2:30pm-4pm, 10:30pm-12am Fix R&D data
- 9/15 10-12, 2-3 join data
9/5-9/8/2017 Putting together University Patents report
- 9/5 10-12 Looked at report, created artifacts, cleaned University Patents folder
- 9/6 10-12 Spoke with Ed about project organization
- 9/7 2:30-4:30 Writing report
- 9/8 10-12 Making data into time series: gyear, make tables and charts
