Relatively recently someone on covers was posting a system for picking games that essentially tracked how many times a team was mentioned on twitter and other social networking sites as a means of picking games - shockingly it did well, and I read an article recently about the system but haven't been able to find the thread/poster who originally posted picks. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Relatively recently someone on covers was posting a system for picking games that essentially tracked how many times a team was mentioned on twitter and other social networking sites as a means of picking games - shockingly it did well, and I read an article recently about the system but haven't been able to find the thread/poster who originally posted picks. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Conventional, non-Twitter prediction methods predict the winning team
around 58 percent of the time. But by combining conventional methods
with Twitter-based models, the researchers were able to predict the game
winner with 65.9 percent accuracy. Models that used both Twitter and
traditional data also made the most accurate predictions on other
sports-betting metrics, like the combined number of points both teams
scored.
Study shows Twitter can be a sports betting tool
https://calvinayre.com/2013/08/13/sports/study-shows-twitter-can-be-a-sports-betting-tool/ According
to the Washington Post, it took a lot of data sampling covering millions
of football-related tweets during the 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons.
Using all these samples, researchers analyzed and cataloged the
“sentiment by teams and then proceeded to run the data through a series
of statistical models”.
Twitter mood predicts the stock market with 86.7% accuracy
Conventional, non-Twitter prediction methods predict the winning team
around 58 percent of the time. But by combining conventional methods
with Twitter-based models, the researchers were able to predict the game
winner with 65.9 percent accuracy. Models that used both Twitter and
traditional data also made the most accurate predictions on other
sports-betting metrics, like the combined number of points both teams
scored.
Study shows Twitter can be a sports betting tool
https://calvinayre.com/2013/08/13/sports/study-shows-twitter-can-be-a-sports-betting-tool/ According
to the Washington Post, it took a lot of data sampling covering millions
of football-related tweets during the 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons.
Using all these samples, researchers analyzed and cataloged the
“sentiment by teams and then proceeded to run the data through a series
of statistical models”.
Twitter mood predicts the stock market with 86.7% accuracy
Well work the Google there are many articles that looked interesting I did not cut and paste.
Meant worth not work...
Well worth the Google, there are many articles that looked interesting I did not cut and paste link to.
Do not remember seeing a post on the forum about using twitter for sports predictions. Does not mean there was not one, just that I do not remember seeing the post. Could always search the forum using the keyword twitter...
Well work the Google there are many articles that looked interesting I did not cut and paste.
Meant worth not work...
Well worth the Google, there are many articles that looked interesting I did not cut and paste link to.
Do not remember seeing a post on the forum about using twitter for sports predictions. Does not mean there was not one, just that I do not remember seeing the post. Could always search the forum using the keyword twitter...
Conventional, non-Twitter prediction methods predict the winning team
around 58 percent of the time. But by combining conventional methods
with Twitter-based models, the researchers were able to predict the game
winner with 65.9 percent accuracy. Models that used both Twitter and
traditional data also made the most accurate predictions on other
sports-betting metrics, like the combined number of points both teams
scored.
Study shows Twitter can be a sports betting tool
https://calvinayre.com/2013/08/13/sports/study-shows-twitter-can-be-a-sports-betting-tool/ According
to the Washington Post, it took a lot of data sampling covering millions
of football-related tweets during the 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons.
Using all these samples, researchers analyzed and cataloged the
“sentiment by teams and then proceeded to run the data through a series
of statistical models”.
Twitter mood predicts the stock market with 86.7% accuracy
Conventional, non-Twitter prediction methods predict the winning team
around 58 percent of the time. But by combining conventional methods
with Twitter-based models, the researchers were able to predict the game
winner with 65.9 percent accuracy. Models that used both Twitter and
traditional data also made the most accurate predictions on other
sports-betting metrics, like the combined number of points both teams
scored.
Study shows Twitter can be a sports betting tool
https://calvinayre.com/2013/08/13/sports/study-shows-twitter-can-be-a-sports-betting-tool/ According
to the Washington Post, it took a lot of data sampling covering millions
of football-related tweets during the 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons.
Using all these samples, researchers analyzed and cataloged the
“sentiment by teams and then proceeded to run the data through a series
of statistical models”.
Twitter mood predicts the stock market with 86.7% accuracy
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