Using Twitter to predict football outcomes

Understand

Twitter has been proven to be a notable source for predictive modelling on various domains such as the stock market, the dissemination of diseases or sports outcomes.

• However, such a study has not been conducted in football (soccer) so far.
• The purpose of this research was to study whether data mined from Twitter can be used for this purpose.
• We built a set of predictive models for the outcome of football games of the English Premier League for a 3 month period based on tweets and we studied whether these models can overcome predictive models which use only historical data and simple football statistics.