Vocabulary as an indicator of creditworthiness: An analysis of public loan data

By Justin Wagers. University of Puget Sound.

The purpose of this research is to determine the usefulness of a borrower’s vocabulary in determining his/her creditworthiness. The analysis takes a word-frequency approach to 36,055 loans… Continue reading Vocabulary as an indicator of creditworthiness: An analysis of public loan data

Place and its Role in Venture Capital Funding

By Luke Heine. Harvard College.

How are city demographics correlated with the amount of venture capital they receive? The paper uses a unique dataset of ~58,000 venture deals from 2000 – 2014 from the CrunchBase dataset and census data from the same period. Continue reading Place and its Role in Venture Capital Funding