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Alfin_William
Alfin_William

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An Unusual Way of following a Sports Match !

I have always been fascinated by sports fans and about how they evaluated every point of events on a particular sports match and provide instant alternate strategies and suggestions that would've made the team win. This is a large untouched pool of data in our current circumstances. So I decided to tap on to it. How I did it ? Here it is.

  1. Used Reddit as my primary social media data source to fan comments since they have more meaningful and content rich comments.

  2. Used data mining algorithms like TF - IDF and K nearest neighbor to extract the key words mainly concentrated and spoken upon by the fans.

  3. Performed sentiment analysis to extract fan emotions related to a particular event in the game.

  4. Finally , combined all this data as the fan's perspective and sorted it for a sports team POV so as to improve their teams performance in future matches.

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