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Crowd-scouting: enhancing football talent identification through the use of machine learning and wisdom of crowds
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2024-12) Díaz de León Rodríguez, Iván; Zareei, Mahdi; emimmayorquin; Roshan Biswal, Rajesh; School of Engineering and Sciences; Campus Estado de México; Hinojosa Cervantes, Salvador Miguel
The identification of talented young footballers is a cornerstone of success in professional football. This capability empowers established clubs to nurture potential superstars who elevate team performance and propel them towards championship contention. Smaller clubs strategically leverage this skill set to develop talent for an eventual sale, boosting their financial situation and, in some instances, even mounting their own title challenges. Ultimately, the ability to recognize future elite players has consistently translated into a significant competitive advantage throughout the history of the sport. This thesis delves into this domain by comparing the performance of three supervised machine learning models (Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, and Support Vector Machines). The models were trained using two comprehensive datasets encompassing data for 1,086 male professional footballers. The first one incorporates player statistics, game-related attributes, and transfer market values. The second one incorporates YouTube metrics to leverage the well-established concept of the wisdom of crowds. This concept presumes that the collective intelligence of a large group can outperform individual judgment. The wisdom of the fans has the potential to optimize scouting efforts. Historical and literary evidence suggests that the most effective strategies combine data with human judgment, particularly for complex tasks such as talent identification. SVM demonstrated the highest effectiveness, achieving superior sensitivity and identifying the greatest proportion of elite players within the dataset under the baseline scenario following a 5-fold cross-validation. Although its performance declined after the inclusion of crowd-sourced features, SVM continued to capture the largest portion of elite players, despite its lower precision score. The crowd-sourced features exhibited surprising potential when integrated with tree-based models, enhancing both sensitivity and precision in identifying the minority class. These models successfully captured a significantly larger share of the minority class while preserving their discriminative capacity. Integrating the collective knowledge of football fans improved the performance of a classification algorithm in identifying elite players using the selected features; thus, thereby validating the hypothesis stated in this dissertation. Furthermore, the feature importance analysis and other valuable insights gleaned from the study pave the way for further research endeavors. By providing this comparative analysis, the study aims to encourage the adoption of advanced data analytics, statistical methods, and more crowd-sourced data within football clubs worldwide. This approach can empower them to optimize resource allocation and refine their talent identification strategies.
Aspect based sentiment analysis in students’ evaluation of teaching
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2024-05) Acosta Ugalde, Diego; Conant Pablos, Santiago Enrique; mtyahinojosa, emipsanchez; Guitérrez Rodríguez, Andrés Eduardo; Juárez Jiménez, Julio Antonio; Morales Méndez, Rubén; School of Engineering and Sciences; Campus Monterrey; Camacho Zuñiga, Claudia
Student evaluations of teachings (SETs) are essential for assessing educational quality. Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques can produce informative insights from these evaluations. The large quantity of text data received from SETs has surpassed the capacity for manual processing. Employing NLP to analyze student feedback offers an efficient method for understanding educational experiences, enabling educational institutions to identify patterns and trends that might have been difficult, if not impossible, to notice with a manual analysis. Data mining using NLP techniques can delve into the thoughts and perspectives of students on their educational experiences, identifying sentiments and aspects that may have a level of abstraction that the human analysis cannot perceive. I use different NLP techniques to enhance the analysis of student feedback in the form of comments and provide better insights and understanding into factors that influence students’ sentiments. This study aims to provide an overview of the various approaches used in NLP and sentiment analysis, focusing on analyzing the models and text representations used to classify numerical scores obtained from the text feedback of a corpus of SETs in Spanish. I provide a series of experiments using different text classification algorithms for sentiment classification over numerical scores of educational aspects. Additionally, I explore two Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) models, a pipeline and a multi-task approach, to extract broad and comprehensive insights from educational feedback for each professor. The results of this research demonstrate the effectiveness of using NLP techniques for analyzing student feedback. The sentiment classification experiments showed favorable outcomes, indicating that it is possible to utilize student comments to classify certain educational scores accurately. Furthermore, the qualitative results obtained from the ABSA models, presented in a user-friendly dashboard, highlight the efficiency and utility of employing these algorithms for the analysis of student feedback. The dashboard provides valuable insights into the sentiments expressed by students regarding various aspects of their educational experience, allowing for a more comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing their opinions. These findings highlight the potential of NLP in the educational domain, offering a powerful tool for institutions to gain a deeper understanding of student perspectives and make data-driven decisions to enhance the quality of education.

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