SLICK NEW SENTIMENT ANALYSIS TOOL FOR ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE LAUNCHES WITH SLEW OF INSIGHTS

GENEVA – A high-tech new service which provides cutting-edge sentiment analysis for the English Premier League has launched with ground breaking insight powered by the very latest in big data analysis and machine learning. BetSentiment adds a data-driven edge to the serious business of football, giving fans and journalists access to a level of analysis previously reserved for team insiders.

BetSentiment’s servers deploy state of the art artificial intelligence to trawl through thousands of tweets every day, extracting the overall mood associated with teams and players. Each tweet is classified as positive, neutral or negative using natural language processing. With millions of tweets from English Premier League followers assessed, a useful sentiment score from fans is then determined.

Using its advanced big data analysis and machine learning capability, BetSentiment provides pundits with useful match predictions as well as all-important fan feelings following game day and transfer window highs and lows.

The web app, which covers every player, and team in the Premier League also correlates the latest trending and top Tweets, making it easy to understand what matters as fan feeling is developing.

Statistics on hashtag activity also take users behind the numbers, pinpointing who’s hot and who’s falling foul of fans – whether that be on the pitch, in the locker room or on the transfer list.

Charles Malafosse, co-founder of BetSentiment says, “Finally, a solution previously reserved for industry professionals is freely accessible to regular football fans. BetSentiment has been created to help everyone better understand social media activity for the Premier League. It harnesses our own state of the art infrastructure, giving us the ability to offer a service that was previously inaccessible.

“From match predictions to trending teams and players, it gets right into the heart of football to unpick exactly what fans are thinking and feeling, players they’re supporting and players and teams making waves across the Twitterverse. Because information is assessed in real time, it’s easy to see who’s winning in the popularity stakes, who’s expected to win on the pitch and who’s falling foul of fans. To my knowledge, there is no other advanced offering with this level of capability available freely to all users.”

BetSentiment will extend its offering to other national leagues and international competitions in the coming months.

To find out more, visit BetSentiment.com

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