Reddit-NBA

analyzing fan sentiment via Reddit

Who are we? 😏

We are:

• NBA Analytics Stars
• Entrepreneurs

What did we do? 🤔

We analyzed fan sentiment on r/NBA using Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Scope 🔍

Finding out which teams and players will perform the best in the upcoming season using fan conversations on:

• NBA Draft
• Free Agency
• NBA Summer League

How did we do it? 😎

We used Reddit's API (PRAW) and Python's NLP packages to apply Machine Learning technique to reddit's rich text datasets

Why Reddit? 💎

Reddit is in the top 20 most visited websites in the world and has a growing presence among NBA fans

Mentors 🤝

• Kanitha Mann, Senior Data Scientist at Nike
• Dr. Arup Sen, Senior Director at NBA

Co-Authers 📜

• Oliver Aramini
• Jesus Campos
• Gregory Warmuth
• Seif Hediya
• Madeleine Chen
• Chin-Chia Leong