Kunal Shah

Name: Kunal Shah

Major: Computer Science

Year: Sophomore, Class of 2018

College: Wiess

Contact:

• Email: ks45@rice.edu
• Phone: 914-355-8653
• Also available via slack

Current projects:

• Hubs Normalizer
• WhoIs Parser
• NHL Player Type Script.

Work Log

Current Project: use python geocode script and R package to pull geocodes for all 600 startups and plot them on the leaflet maps.

3/9/2016: Interactive Hub Plots in R via leaflet, SDC FixedWidthNormalizer

3/14/2016: Fixed the Combined Rounds Info Hubs normal form text files; finished processing all the hubs files with the Normalizer; Processed the Women in Entrepreneurship files.

3/18/2016: Organized the Hubs Pulls folder on the server; created a Normalizer Documentation Wiki page; documented the Hubs Pulls text files and processing tools; updated the Mapping with R wiki page;

3/23/2016: Explored XML to JSON solutions to convert Semantic Mediawiki (particularly the Halo extension) output into an updated API.

3/28/2016: Developed whoisParser.pl Perl script for parsing URL requests into Creation date, Registrar date, Registrant name and address, and Admin name and address.

4/5/2016: Built the WhoisParser perl script.

4/8/2016: Finished the WhoisParser and wrote a thorough wiki page at WhoIs Parser with instructions and examples.

4/11/2016: Finished creating the NHL Player ContractMess text files by adding columns for Contract IDs and Contract types.