Nieman Foundation at Harvard
The New York Times has shown with their currently-on-hiatus 4th Down Bot that sports and automated reporting on social media go hand in hand. With March Madness in full swing, the time is ripe for another stab at the sports bot.
.@thepapaya and I just made @NailbiterBot, which tweets an alert if an NCAA tournament game gets close with under three minutes to play.
— Noah Veltman (@veltman) March 20, 2014
Veltman is a former Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow who recently joined Jenny Ye at WNYC.
The toy was an instant hit, and suggests there’s room for a lot more innovating in the sports bot space.
@jeremybowers @jennschiffer @thepapaya Might try to do it for MLB this season too!
— Noah Veltman (@veltman) March 21, 2014
Veltman says he was “initially was scraping the scoreboard directly,” but realized he could get more accurate, timely data from “the JSONP file that powers the scoreboard on NCAA.com.” The developers in the audience should look for a Source post explaining the nitty-gritty next week.
And, in other news:
Let's #GoCrimson! @hoopsatharvard moves past 5th-seeded Cincinnati, 61-57 http://t.co/4BBuQuaTzt #MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/FXJE7WgD48
— Harvard University (@Harvard) March 21, 2014
One comment:
You’d think Twitter would have figured out to do this on their own, with a @MagicRecs-like bot or alert, particularly since they are partnering with NCAA broadcasters again: https://blog.twitter.com/2014/marchmadness-the-big-dance-is-on-twitter
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