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Robert P. Schumaker is an American academic and Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Tyler, best known for creating the AZFinText textual financial prediction system and is also a Sports Analytics expert.
Biography
Schumaker received a B.S. degree from the University of Cincinnati in Civil Engineering, an MBA from the University of Akron and Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from University of Arizona.
While at the University of Arizona, Schumaker created the Arizona Financial Text System (AZFinText) which is a stock selection research project that utilizes the terms in financial news articles to predict future stock prices.
Schumaker also works in the field of Sports Analytics authoring numerous papers on greyhound and harness racing prediction as well as using Twitter sentiment to predict Premier League matches. 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).