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Robert P. Schumaker is an American academic and Professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Tyler, best known for creating AZFinText, a news-aware high-frequency stock trading system. Schumaker is also known as a Sports Analytics expert for his pioneering work using Twitter tweet sentiment to predict sports outcomes and is currently active in both prescription drug interactions and covid-19 vaccine allergies. Schumaker is also the founder and Director of the Data Analytics Lab.
Schumaker received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, an MBA in Management and International Business from the University of Akron and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.
While at the University of Arizona, Schumaker created the Arizona Financial Text ( AZFinText) System which machine learns the words used in financial news articles to predict future stock prices. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Schumaker also works in the field of Sports Analytics authoring numerous papers on greyhound [7] and harness racing prediction [8] as well as using Twitter sentiment to predict Premier League [9] and NFL matches. [10] He has also authored a book on the subject, Sports Data Mining (2010; ISBN 978-1-4419-6729-9).
He is the Past Editor of the Communications of the International Information Management Association journal (2010-2015), Associate Editor of Decision Support Systems and is a Fellow of the International Information Management Association (IIMA).
This article is an
autobiography or has been extensively edited by the subject or by someone connected to the subject. (February 2022) |
Robert P. Schumaker is an American academic and Professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Tyler, best known for creating AZFinText, a news-aware high-frequency stock trading system. Schumaker is also known as a Sports Analytics expert for his pioneering work using Twitter tweet sentiment to predict sports outcomes and is currently active in both prescription drug interactions and covid-19 vaccine allergies. Schumaker is also the founder and Director of the Data Analytics Lab.
Schumaker received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, an MBA in Management and International Business from the University of Akron and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.
While at the University of Arizona, Schumaker created the Arizona Financial Text ( AZFinText) System which machine learns the words used in financial news articles to predict future stock prices. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Schumaker also works in the field of Sports Analytics authoring numerous papers on greyhound [7] and harness racing prediction [8] as well as using Twitter sentiment to predict Premier League [9] and NFL matches. [10] He has also authored a book on the subject, Sports Data Mining (2010; ISBN 978-1-4419-6729-9).
He is the Past Editor of the Communications of the International Information Management Association journal (2010-2015), Associate Editor of Decision Support Systems and is a Fellow of the International Information Management Association (IIMA).