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→Step Three: Demo Day Crawler
This part of the project relies on the contributions of the wonderful [[Minh Le]]. Better documentation for the project can be found on the [[Demo Day Page Parser]], [[Demo Day Page Google Classifier]], and [[Accelerator Demo Day]] project pages.
Essentially, this part of the accelerator data project will use the [[Demo Day Page Parser]] to look through accelerator websites for pages which list a cohort's 'Demo Day', or the day in which accelerators present their companies to a group of special investors ([https://www.ycombinator.com/demoday/faq/ here's an example FAQ page from Y Combinator]). The [[Demo Day Page Google Classifier]] will then determine if the page is, in fact, a demo day page. '''Given a cohort's demo day, we can gather a few pieces of key information (check with Ed to make sure this is the correct information to gather from Demo Days):'''
*The date a cohort began/the season the cohort went through the accelerator
**This is acquired by looking at the cohort's demo day date, and subtracting the number of weeks/months of a cohort for that given accelerator. The length of a cohort can be found in the file:
