1. A Game of Presence, Complexity, and Money: An Analysis of Professional Soccer Players’ Twitter Use During the 2014 FIFA World Cup Open Access Author: Mavrakis, Konstantinos Title: A Game of Presence, Complexity, and Money: An Analysis of Professional Soccer Players’ Twitter Use During the 2014 FIFA World Cup Area of Honors: Letters, Arts, and Sciences (Abington) Keywords: BrandingIdentitySoccerSocial MediaTwitter File: Download Mavrakis_Konstantinos_A_Game_of_Presence_Complexity_and_Money-_An_Analysis_of_Professional_Soccer_Players_Twitter_Use_During_the_2014_FIFA_World_Cup_.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Ross S Brinkert, Thesis SupervisorLisa Volk Chewning, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. GETTING A KICK OUT OF FINANCE: A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SOCCER’S TRANSFER MARKET Open Access Author: Blair, Richard Joseph Title: GETTING A KICK OUT OF FINANCE: A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SOCCER’S TRANSFER MARKET Area of Honors: Finance Keywords: RichardJosephBlairFinanceStatisticsSoccerSportsMoneyballValuationModel File: Download RJB_Thesis_b.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Dr. Robert Alexander Novack, Thesis SupervisorDr. Brian Spangler Davis, Thesis Honors Advisor
3. SOCCER ANALYTICS: AN EXAMINATION OF CURRENT APPROACHES FOR GAME OUTCOME PREDICTION AND THE POTENTIAL OF DEEP LEARNING WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Open Access Author: Gomez Lorente, Juan Title: SOCCER ANALYTICS: AN EXAMINATION OF CURRENT APPROACHES FOR GAME OUTCOME PREDICTION AND THE POTENTIAL OF DEEP LEARNING WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Area of Honors: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Machine LearningDeep LearningNeural NetworksArtificial Neural NetworksPoisson RegressionSoccerSports AnalyticsBettingPredictive ModellingMoneyball AnalyticsSoftMax ClassifierRegressioneffects encodingfeed-forward networksbackpropagationgradient descentresilient backpropagationNewton's MethodTaylor Series expansionManhattan RuleBroyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithmBFGSQuasi-Newton Methods File: Download Juan_GomezLorente.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Hui Yang, Thesis SupervisorDr. Catherine Mary Harmonosky, Thesis Honors Advisor