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The Impact Of Twitter On The National Hockey League And Its Players, Benjamin Strauss Mar 2021

The Impact Of Twitter On The National Hockey League And Its Players, Benjamin Strauss

Honors Projects in Data Science

This study offers a new perspective on collecting and analyzing Twitter data surrounding the National Hockey League (NHL) to identify any trends or relationships between the data and overall performance during the 2021 abbreviated season. This paper provides and in-depth analysis by studying a sample of sixty of the top NHL players, specifically those who are typically top performers in the league, spanning over all thirty-one teams and all positions, this study was able to identify a deeper and broader perspective of what implications can be drawn from analyzing data from Twitter to both predict and reflect both individual player …


Analyzing Yankees And Red Sox Sentiment Over The Course Of A Season, Connor Koch Nov 2020

Analyzing Yankees And Red Sox Sentiment Over The Course Of A Season, Connor Koch

Honors Projects in Data Science

This paper investigates data collected on twitter which references the Yankees or Red Sox during the 2020 Major League Baseball (MLB) season. The objective is to analyze the sentiment of tweets referencing the Yankees and Red Sox over the course of the season. In addition, an investigation of the networks within the data and the topics that were prevalent will be conducted. The 2020 MLB season was started late because of the COVID-19 pandemic and was a season like no other. The expectation of a dataset revolving around baseball is that the topics discussed would be about baseball. The findings …