Online crowdfunding platforms are popular sources for raising money for various causes. These causes can range from paying for sick animals' hospital bills to raising funds to cover a friends' college tuition. Often, online crowdfunding methods have come to represent the social and political climate, as those who are personally or tangentially affected by what they see in the news turn to crowdfunding as an opportunity to help others. With the recent crisis in Ukraine, many have looked to crowdfunding as a means of helping those across the world.
The objective of this project is to use web scraping techniques to retrieve data from projects related to Ukraine on crowdfunding websites. After doing so, the goal will be to determine through various methods what factors play a role in donations to the Ukraine crisis.
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| 6/1: Talk and Working on Script
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- Talk on Good Research Practices and Keeping Logs
- Spent time learning about and installing necessary packages
- Worked on web scraping script
- Worked on log
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| 6/2: Working on Script and Mentor Meeting
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- Continued working on scraping data
- Met with mentor
- Worked on setting up environment
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| 6/3: Working on Script
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- Continued working on script
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| 6/4: RCR Training and Script
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- Attended RCR Training
- Continued working on script
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| 6/7: Mentor Meeting and Script
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- Discussed progress with mentor
- Continued working on script
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| 6/8: Script and Talk on Technical Writing
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- Attended talk about technical writing
- Continued working on script
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| 6/9: Finalizing Script and Mentor Meeting
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- Met with mentor, discussed literature review, possible future analysis, and finalization of script
- Worked on last pieces of script, ran script on all data
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| 6/10: Collecting additional data
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- Collected additional data that could not be collected via script
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| 6/13: Cleaning Data
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| 6/14: Cleaning Data and Meeting with Mentor
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- Continuing to clean data
- Met with mentor and discussed locating relevant literature
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| 6/15: Finding Papers about ML/Crowdfunding and Research Talk
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- Research Presentation by Dr.Madiraju
- Worked on collecting and reading papers that used machine learning techniques to examine crowdfunding
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| 6/16: Meeting with Mentor and Working on Data Visualizations
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- Discussed potential data visualizations and mini presentation with mentor
- Started to get familiar with Tableau, and worked on map making
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| 6/17: Working on Data Visualizations
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- Started working in Jupyter Notebook, installed and began trying to make pairs plots
- Continued working on creating maps, figured out how to group data by country using a mix of Excel and Tableau
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| 6/20: Working on Data Visualizations
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- Continued working on data visualizations in tableau and Jupyter Notebook
- Worked on fitting simple linear models
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| 6/21: Working on Data Visualizations and Meeting with Mentor
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- Discussed improvements on data visualizations and different takeaways from visualizations with mentor
- Started editing visualizations
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| 6/22: Talk from Dr. Bialkowski and Working on Data Visualizations
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- Research Presentation by Dr. Bialkowski
- Finished editing data visualizations
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| 6/23: Meeting with Mentor and Data Cleaning
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- Started learning about Doc2Vec
- Discussed with mentor about future steps in project
- Started cleaning more data to be able to perform next steps
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| 6/24: Data Cleaning
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- Worked on retrieving video transcripts
- Cleaned more of the data
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| 6/27: Video Analysis and Doc2Vec
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- Looked at how to use Google Video Intelligence API/set up environment
- Started to implement Doc2Vec on data
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| 6/28: Doc2Vec, Mentor Meeting, Presentation Prep
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- Looked at how to implement Doc2Vec
- Met with mentor and discussed presentation and future work
- Prepared for presentation
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| 6/29: Mini Presentations and Data Cleaning
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- Practiced for presentation
- Presented research project and listened to other presentations
- Cleaned update section of the data
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| 6/30: Sentiment Analysis and Mentor Meeting
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- Worked on running sentiment analysis on data
- Met with mentor regarding analysis and future work
- Continued working on sentiment analysis
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| 7/1: Sentiment Analysis
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- Worked on combining data from different sources into one place
- Ran tests in R on emotions data
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| 7/5: Topic Modeling and Mentor Meeting
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- Worked on implementing LDA
- Met with mentor regarding emotion analysis results, LDA, and future work
- Looked into other implementations of LDA/PCA
- Gathered more emotions data
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| 7/6: Sentiment Analysis and LDA Research
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- Gathered more sentiment analysis data for video transcripts
- Read papers regarding the use of LDA
- Started to implement a frame extraction method on description data
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| 7/7: Frame Method, Mentor Meeting, and LDA
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- Worked more on implementation of frame extraction
- Met with mentor - discussed future work with LDA, current sentiment analysis, and posters
- Worked on extracting data from lda model
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| 7/8: LDA work
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- Worked on extracting data from lda model
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| 7/11: LDA
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- Worked on tuning parameters to improve LDA output
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| 7/12: Improving LDA model, Mentor Meeting, Doc2Vec
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- Worked on tuning parameters to improve LDA output
- Met with mentor regarding LDA, future analysis, and final paper/poster
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| 7/13: Doc2Vec, Machine Learning Classifiers
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- Worked on implementing Doc2Vec and feeding results to Machine Learning Classifiers to predict different measures
- Looked into parameter tuning techniques
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| 7/14: Doc2Vec, Machine Learning Classifiers and Mentor Meeting
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- Worked more on parameter tuning
- Worked on implementing Doc2Vec and feeding results to Machine Learning Classifiers to predict Gender and Country
- Met with mentor regarding topic modeling analysis and poster/paper
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| 7/15: Working on Poster and Data Ethics Talk
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- Examined Sample Posters
- Began drafting poster
- Attended Data Ethics talk by Dr. Michael Zimmer
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| 7/18: Poster
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- Worked more on Poster
- Worked on outlining figures for paper
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| 7/19: Poster and Paper
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- Worked more on Poster
- Began writing content for methods section of paper
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| 7/20: Poster and Paper
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- Worked more on Poster
- Worked more on methods section of paper
- Attended talk on creating effective posters
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| 7/21: Poster, Paper, and Mentor Meeting
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- Worked more on Poster
- Met with mentor regarding poster and paper
- Worked on charts for poster
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| 7/22: Poster and Paper
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- Worked more on Poster
- Worked on results section of paper
- Read background information on signaling theory
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| 7/25: Poster and Paper
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- Continued editing Poster
- Worked on results section of paper
- Worked on introduction section of paper
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| 7/26: Paper
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- Worked on Discussion Section of paper
- Edited other sections of paper
- Collected figures together
- Read background literature
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| 7/27: Paper
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- Worked on Literature Review Section of paper
- Edited other sections of paper
- Read background literature
- Attended "Grad School: How and Why?" talk by Dr.Brylow
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| 7/28: Paper, Presentation, Mentor Meeting
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- Worked on Abstract and Conclusion of paper
- Edited other sections of paper
- Met with mentor regarding poster, paper, and presentation
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