论文标题
体育和政治会混合吗？大联盟体育和总统候选人的粉丝基础的交叉分析
Do Sports and Politics Mix? Cross-Analysis of Fan Bases of Major League Sports and Presidential Candidates
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论文摘要
考虑到体育和政治以非常复杂的方式相互作用的事实，该跨学科领域在数据科学研究中仍未受到影响。鉴于这一事实是，对于NBA和NFL等主要体育联赛而言，巨大的粉丝群，对我们来说，了解体育迷及其政治偏好之间的隐藏关系以及这些偏好在总统选举期间支持不同候选人的行为非常重要。利用来自Twitter的丰富用户数据，我们提出了一个新的度量，国会奉献精神得分，以更准确地模拟候选人的偏好。使用拟议的指标，在具有强大政治隶属关系的球迷的体育水平，州级和团队级别进行了细粒度分析。尽管一些发现符合以前的研究和报告，但我们还为所有发现提供了新的见解和定量证据。
Considering the fact that sports and politics interact in a very complex way, this interdisciplinary area remains largely untouched in data science research. Given the fact that huge fan bases exist for the major sports leagues such as NBA and NFL, it would be important for us to understand the hidden relationship between sports fans and their political preferences, and how do these preferences affect their behaviors in supporting different candidates during the presidential election. Taking advantage of the rich user data from Twitter, we propose a new metric, Congressional Devotedness Score, to model candidate preferences more accurately. Using the proposed metric, a fine-grained analysis is conducted at sport-level, state-level, and team-level for fans with strong political affiliation. While some of the findings conform to previous studies and reports, we also offer newer insights and quantitative evidences for all the findings.
