Winner of World Cup

This Boston Analytics Company Successfully Predicted the Winner of World Cup

Come June, thousands of futbol-loving Bostonians will turn on the tube and tune into the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. If they’re the risk-taking type, they might even place bets on their favorite teams – if only to lick their wounds after losing Warren Buffett’s $1 billion March Madness perfect bracket challenge.  

Fortunately, those looking for a little return on the tourney are in luck. Boston’s predictive analytics champ RapidMiner is offering up its platform to empower data-driven sports fans a way to hack the winners. To make the pot even sweeter, there’s a cool $10,000 up for grabs, too.

Before you ask, yes, RapidMiner’s predicted the World Cup-winning team before. Back in 2010, the company used sentiment analysis to accurately predict the winner of the final game more than a week before the actual games began. After scouring sentiments in texts, blogs and social media and analyzing more than 1,000 online channels and thousands of posts per minute, RapidMiner’s tech churned out a prediction that Spain would reign victorious. A few days later, the European country was crowned the winner of the 2010 championship, which featured a matchup between Spain and the Netherlands, with Spain winning 1-0.

Now, RapidMiner wants it to be your turn.

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