Application to scrape and analyze data about the incoming 2015 NBA draft class. For each player the following is done:
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An initial profile is built from ESPN Insider
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Their twitter handle is found from the twitter api
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The 20 most recent news articles are scraped via the bing web api
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The 50 most recent tweets about the player are scraped
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The 50 most recent tweets by the player are scraped
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Keywords are extracted from the news articles using POS tagging and tf-idf
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The player is given sentiment scores and ranks for news articles about them, tweets about them, and their own tweets