IBM India today said that it is providing live match analysis, player performance and social insights into the ongoing Cricket World Cup to fans across the world by using cloud and advanced analytics technology.
IBM Social Sentiment Index leverages sophisticated IBM Watson Content Analytics delivered as part of Watson Foundations to aggregate and analyse public opinions shared across millions of tweets and other social conversations during the Cup.
The tool will analyze these data streams to generate predictions on the teams most likely to win the tournament, highlight the most talked about players and teams and more.
Similarly, Twitterati Speaks is an advanced social media and data analytics engine combined with the power of Watson technologies to identify and record the most talked about moments/highlights for each match of the tournament. The tool uses IBM Cloudant, a distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) on IBM Bluemix,cloud-based platform to process the insights.
Sriram Rajan, Executive Director- IBM Analytics, India & South Asia said, “Cricket is the most popular game in India and fans have limitless appetite to learn more about their favorite players and team. We are excited to serve fans with a multitude of key insights this Cricket World Cup. This can be applied across industries by leveraging the combined ecosystem of IBM’s analytics, cloud, social and mobile capabilities.
IBM has the analytic and cloud capabilities that customers need to drive better outcomes.”
In the past too, IBM has been closely engaged and associated with major sports events across the world such as Wimbledon, Australian Open, Football World Cup and has shared key insights with fans the world over.