McNair Projects

McNair Projects were a deliverable-based effort, undertaken by small groups of research or tech team members at the McNair Center. Projects ranged from codifying institutional knowledge into wiki pages to full reports that contain policy recommendations, and from creating tools (see Software Repository Listing) or datasets to building components of academic papers. A List of All McNair Projects contains projects that are not active, tabled, completed, or subsumed. See also Project Planning for Fall 2017 or Projects Under Review at the McNair Center.

All McNair Projects

Further information on each project may be found in the table below.

Data summary: There are 152 projects found.

Project Title	Has owner
Accelerator Data	Shrey Agarwal Matthew Ringheanu
Accelerator Demo Day	Minh Le
Accelerator Industry Classification (Data)	Veeral Shah
Accelerator Seed List (Data)	Shrey Agarwal Matthew Ringheanu Connor Rothschild Veeral Shah
Accelerator Website Images	Christy Warden
Accelerators (Data)	Susan Cohen Veeral Shah
Accenture Work	Dylan Dickens
Amazon HQ2	Ed Egan Anne Dayton Diana Carranza
Amazon Mechanical Turk for Analyzing Demo Day Classifier's Results	Minh Le
American Community Survey (ACS) Data	Jeemin Sim
American Conservatism	Anne Dayton
Analyzing the Innovation Promotion Act	Ariel Sun
Analyzing the SBA	Carlin Cherry
ArcMap / ArcGIS Documentation	Jeemin Sim
Augusta Startup Ecosystem	Ben Baldazo Taylor Jacobe Joe Reilly Dylan Dickens
BID Project	Cindy Ryoo
Bulk Patent Assignee Processing
Challenges Women Entrepreneurs Face (Wiki Page)
Climate Change	Shrey Agarwal
Cofounding in Exchange for Equity	Ben Baldazo
Collecting SBIR Data	Adrian Smart
Creating a Guide to Patent Litigation	Marcela Interiano
Crunchbase Accelerator Equity	Maxine Tao
Crunchbase Accelerator Founders	Grace Tan
Crunchbase Data	Adrian Smart Maxine Tao Grace Tan Connor Rothschild
Deep Text Classifier	Yang Zhang
Demo Day Page Google Classifier	Kyran Adams
Demo Day Page Parser	Peter Jalbert
E&I Governance Policy Report	Albert Nabiullin Catherine Kirby Eliza Martin Dylan Dickens
Emerging Ecosystems	Eliza Martin
Enclosing Circle Algorithm	Christy Warden Peter Jalbert
Enclosing Circle Algorithm (Plotting)
Enclosing Circle Algorithm (Rework)	Abhijit Brahme
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth Literature Review	Ramee Saleh
Equivalent XPath and APS Queries	Ed Egan Oliver Chang
Eventbrite Webcrawler (Tool)	Gunny Liu
Exploring Business Dynamism in High Tech	Ariel Sun
Federal Grant Data	Avesh Krishna Catherine Kirby Jeemin Sim
Free Enterprise	Anne Dayton
GPU Build	Oliver Chang Kyran Adams
Geocode.py
Google Crawler	Anne Freeman
Google Scholar Crawler	Christy Warden
Governance Measures
Govtrack Webcrawler (Tool)
Hierarchical Clustering	Oliver Chang Kyran Adams
Houston Accelerators (issue brief)	Ben Baldazo Dylan Dickens
Houston Accelerators and Incubators (Report)	Ben Baldazo
Houston Entrepreneurship	Ben Baldazo Dylan Dickens
... further results

Subsumed Projects

Subsumed projects are those that are active under a larger umbrella project. There are currently 0 subsumed projects.

Umbrella Project	Subsumed Project
Accelerator Demo Day	Demo Day Page Parser Demo Day Page Google Classifier
Collecting SBIR Data	SBIR Evaluation
Deep Text Classifier	Industry Classifier
Enclosing Circle Algorithm (Rework)	Enclosing Circle Algorithm Enclosing Circle Algorithm (Plotting)
Federal Grant Data	NSF Data NIH Data
Houston Entrepreneurship	Start-Ups of Houston (Map) Houston Accelerators and Incubators (Report) Houston Accelerators (issue brief) Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief) VC Report Houston 2017 Houston Economic Data Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project
Houston Innovation District	Houston Entrepreneurship
Houston's VC Firms	Houston's Venture Capital Issue Brief
Houston's Venture Capital Issue Brief	Ranking US Cities by Venture Capital
Hubs	Hubs Analysis 2017
Patent Assignment Data Restructure	Patent Data Extraction Scripts (Tool) USPTO Bulk Data Processing Patent Data Cleanup (June 2016) Patent Data
Ranking US Cities by Venture Capital	Top Cities for VC Backed Companies
Reproducible Patent Data	Redesigning Patent Database Patent Assignment Data Restructure
The Truth Behind Patent Trolls Issue Brief	The Truth About Patent Trolls
U.S. Seed Accelerators	Accelerator Seed List (Data) Accelerator Data

Tabled Projects

Data summary: There are 21 projects found.

Project Title	Has owner
Accelerator Industry Classification (Data)	Veeral Shah
Accelerators (Data)	Susan Cohen Veeral Shah
Analyzing the SBA	Carlin Cherry
Cofounding in Exchange for Equity	Ben Baldazo
E&I Governance Policy Report	Albert Nabiullin Catherine Kirby Eliza Martin Dylan Dickens
Emerging Ecosystems	Eliza Martin
Equivalent XPath and APS Queries	Ed Egan Oliver Chang
Lex Machina	Amir Kazempour
Market of Ideas Research Notes	Avesh Krishna
Non-BIPP University Think Tank Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research	Albert Nabiullin
Patent Litigation and Review	Marcela Interiano
SBA Investigation (Report)	Dylan Dickens Carlin Cherry
Small Business Research	Dylan Dickens Jake Silberman Carlin Cherry
Small Inventors Project	Avesh Krishna
Stock and Flows of Publicly Traded Companies (Report)	Will Cleland
The Truth Behind Patent Trolls Issue Brief
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
USPTO Patent Litigation Data	Ed Egan
Venture Backed Companies in Fortune 500
Weekly Roundup	Meghana Gaur
Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)	Carlin Cherry

Completed Projects

Data summary: There are 47 projects found.

Project Title	Has owner
Accenture Work	Dylan Dickens
Amazon HQ2	Ed Egan Anne Dayton Diana Carranza
Amazon Mechanical Turk for Analyzing Demo Day Classifier's Results	Minh Le
Analyzing the Innovation Promotion Act	Ariel Sun
Augusta Startup Ecosystem	Ben Baldazo Taylor Jacobe Joe Reilly Dylan Dickens
Challenges Women Entrepreneurs Face (Wiki Page)
Climate Change	Shrey Agarwal
Collecting SBIR Data	Adrian Smart
Creating a Guide to Patent Litigation	Marcela Interiano
Crunchbase Data	Adrian Smart Maxine Tao Grace Tan Connor Rothschild
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth Literature Review	Ramee Saleh
Eventbrite Webcrawler (Tool)	Gunny Liu
Exploring Business Dynamism in High Tech	Ariel Sun
Geocode.py
Governance Measures
Govtrack Webcrawler (Tool)
Key Terms Search	Christy Warden
LBO Data Description	Ed Egan James Chen Brian Ayash
LBO Lit Review	Brian Ayash Marcela Interiano
Mapping on R	Albert Nabiullin
Matching LBOs (Julia)	James Chen
Matching VentureOne (Data)	Rosemarie Ziedonis Ariel Sun
Mechanical Turk (Tool)
Moroccan Parliament Web Crawler	Peter Jalbert
Overconfidence Papers
PDF Downloader	Christy Warden
Parallel Enclosing Circle Algorithm	Oliver Chang
Patstats Documentation
Presidential Candidates and Entrepreneurship	Dylan Dickens
Redesigning Patent Database	Shelby Bice
SDC Normalizer
SDC Platinum (Wiki)	Ben Baldazo
Small Business Access to Capital Surveys	Ariel Sun Carlin Cherry
Small Business Data	Dylan Dickens
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Media Entrepreneurship Resources
Start Up Address Finder Algorithm (Tool)	Jake Floyd
Trial Data Project	Catherine Kirby Jeemin Sim
Twitter Follower Finder (Tool)	Christy Warden
Twitter Webcrawler (Tool)	Gunny Liu
Twitterverse Exploration	Gunny Liu
URL Finder (Tool)	Veeral Shah
US Address Verification	Oliver Chang
Venture Capital Databases
VentureXpert
Whois Parser	Kunal Shah

Tool and Data Projects

Data summary: There are 30 tool projects found.

Project Title	Has owner	Has project status
Accelerator Industry Classification (Data)	Veeral Shah	Tabled
Collecting SBIR Data	Adrian Smart	Complete
Crunchbase Data	Adrian Smart Maxine Tao Grace Tan Connor Rothschild	Complete
Deep Text Classifier	Yang Zhang	Active
Enclosing Circle Algorithm	Christy Warden Peter Jalbert	Subsume
Enclosing Circle Algorithm (Plotting)		Subsume
Enclosing Circle Algorithm (Rework)	Abhijit Brahme	Active
Eventbrite Webcrawler (Tool)	Gunny Liu	Complete
Geocode.py		Complete
Google Scholar Crawler	Christy Warden	Active
Govtrack Webcrawler (Tool)		Complete
Industry Classifier	Christy Warden	Subsume
Interactive Maps - The Whole Process
LinkedIn Crawler (Python)
Mapping on R	Albert Nabiullin	Complete
Matching Entrepreneurs to VCs	Ed Egan Christy Warden	Active
Matching LBOs (Julia)	James Chen	Complete
Mechanical Turk (Tool)		Complete
Moroccan Parliament Web Crawler	Peter Jalbert	Complete
Patent Data Extraction Scripts (Tool)	Marcela Interiano	Subsume
Patent Data Processing - SQL Steps	Shelby Bice	Subsume
SDC Normalizer		Complete
SDC Platinum (Wiki)	Ben Baldazo	Complete
Start Up Address Finder Algorithm (Tool)	Jake Floyd	Complete
The Matcher (Tool)		Proposed
Twitter Follower Finder (Tool)	Christy Warden	Complete
Twitter News Finder (Tool)	Christy Warden
Twitter Webcrawler (Tool)	Gunny Liu	Complete
URL Finder (Tool)	Veeral Shah	Complete
Whois Parser	Kunal Shah	Complete

Data summary: There are 23 data projects found.

Project Title	Has owner	Has project status
Accelerator Data	Shrey Agarwal Matthew Ringheanu	Subsume
Accelerator Seed List (Data)	Shrey Agarwal Matthew Ringheanu Connor Rothschild Veeral Shah	Subsume
Accelerators (Data)	Susan Cohen Veeral Shah	Tabled
Bulk Patent Assignee Processing		Subsume
Collecting SBIR Data	Adrian Smart	Complete
Crunchbase Data	Adrian Smart Maxine Tao Grace Tan Connor Rothschild	Complete
Federal Grant Data	Avesh Krishna Catherine Kirby Jeemin Sim	Active
Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project	Ben Baldazo Dylan Dickens	Subsume
Hubs	Hira Farooqi	Active
Lex Machina	Amir Kazempour	Tabled
Medical Centers and Grants	Catherine Kirby	Active
Patent Assignment Data Restructure	Sonia Zhang Marcela Interiano	Subsume
Patent Data	Marcela Interiano	Subsume
Patent Data Cleanup (June 2016)	Marcela Interiano	Subsume
Patstats Documentation		Complete
Small Business Access to Capital Surveys	Ariel Sun Carlin Cherry	Complete
Small Business Data	Dylan Dickens	Complete
Start-Ups of Houston (Map)	Ben Baldazo	Subsume
USPTO Patent Assignment Dataset	Ed Egan	Active
USPTO Patent Litigation Data	Ed Egan	Tabled
Venture Capital (Data)	Meghana Gaur Adrian Smart Jake Silberman	Subsume
Venture Capital Databases		Complete
VentureXpert		Complete