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The Intelligent Information Laboratory has developed Stat Monkey, which writes game stories after you plug in the information and quotes. The singularity for journalism is nigh!
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- Anaheim
- Anaheim,California,United States
- baseball
- Bobby Abreu
- Boston
- Boston Red Sox
- Boston,Massachusetts,United States
- Brian Fuentes
- Chone Figgins
- college sports teams
- Darren Oliver
- Fenway Park
- Guess algorithms
- important player
- Intelligent Information Laboratory
- J.D. Drew
- Jason Bulger
- Jonathan Papelbon
- Juan Rivera
- Kendry Morales
- Kevin Jepsen
- Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
- Los Angeles,California,United States
- Mike Lowell
- Nick Adenhart
- Northwestern University
- Scott Kazmir
- Torii Hunter
- two underlying technologies
- Vladimir Guerrero
- Media
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The project's webpage is here:
http://infolab.northwestern.edu/projects/stats-monkey/
I met these guys at Tech Cocktail and saw this in action. It is indeed awesome.
There is nothing worse than sports "journalism."
I think most game coverage is fairly wrote. You could probably use this software to cover the actual news for most of your games. Then you'd have an editor who'd look over the story, juice it up a bit to make sure the angles that aren't featured in the numbers are present.
I will stand up for really good sports opinion stuff. I've been reading the Sports Guy over on ESPN for nearly 7 years now. I'll read anything Bill Simmons writes. He can make anything sound interesting. I never played organized basketball, but I enjoy his columns so much that I watch the playoffs every year. That's good writing.
But the fact that this software gets you pretty darn close to a real story is pretty revealing.
Sport opinion is something that will never be replace. Hunter Thompson when he wrote for Sports Illustrated is some of my favorite stuff ever. But how do most sport opinion writers get to that position? If I had to guess, it would be writing stuff that this program does.