(Imperial College London - Business School - Feb 2016)
Task1: What is the relationship between the number of times inventors collaborate and project performance? (colab-perf.py)
Task2: What is the relationship between the ethnic composition of a firm and the likelihood that an inventor will move to that firm? (move-ethni.py)
D1: Firm Profiles (too large and has not been directly used so is not uploaded)
D2: Firm Level Data
D3: Patent Data
D4: Surnames and Ethnicities reference file
- Herfindahl index is a measure for diversity of sets. Let 1-Herfindahl be h-index.
- Every team is assigned an h-index based on members ethnicities. Ethinicity is implied from metaphonic version of team members' last names.
- Data obtained here is later imported to R for Possion regression. Since we have count data, Poisson is the suitable model.
- Sort dictionary by key in python. (key, value)
- Collapse a list of lists into one list.
- Use of tuple.
- Use of Counter.
- Use of jellyfish.metaphone.