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Twitter Sentiment Analysis Added To Wimbledon’s IBM Slamtracker


For this year’s Wimbledon, sentiment analysis has been added to IBM’s Slamtracker: a live scores tracking system which follows tennis grand slams point-by-point.


As well as providing real-time scores, statistics and in-depth analytics about competing tennis stars, Slamtracker also monitors Facebook and Twitter for positive and negative sentiment about the players during a game.

The percentage of positive sentiment attributed to each player is displayed in a bar alongside their photo, but viewers can see more information by clicking on the “Analyse” tab and then the “Social Sentiment” button.

Clicking “Social Sentiment” will bring up a line graph displaying the number of tweets sent about both competing players during a match. The graph updates every 10 minutes. For example, in the graph below, around 200 tweets are being sent about Li Na every 10 minutes, but only around 20 tweets mention her opponent
Agnieszka Radwanska in the same time period.



Despite this, Radwanska is enjoying a higher positivity percentage, with 92% of the tweets mentioning her in a complementary fashion, compared to 71% of the tweets and comments about Li.

After the first week of Wimbledon, surprise early casualties Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer were the two most talked about players.  IBM’s analysis software registered 108,585 Nadal mentions and 84,385 Federer mentions between the start of the tournament and the end on June. Here are the stats for the men:



  1. Rafael Nadal: 108,585
  2. Roger Federer: 84,385
  3. Andy Murray: 73,569
  4. Novak Djokovic: 48,588
  5. Steve Darcis: 38,887
However, people were more positive on Twitter about the two British players: Andy Murray and Laura Robson. 44% of the comments about Laura Robson were positive, while 37% of the comments about Andy Murray were positive.

Most used words on Twitter during the first week of Wimbledon
People aren’t just talking about the players at Wimbledon. “Ball”, “Strawberry” and “Scream” have all been mentioned thousands of times on Twitter during Wimbledon’s first week, as tweeters comment about what they see and do.

The addition of social media-based sentiment analysis to IBM’s Slamtracker highlights just how important Twitter has become as an analysis tool. Tennis fans want to talk about Wimbledon and see what other people are saying about it, and Twitter is they best place to express these views.

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