Robert P. Schumaker is an American academic and Professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Tyler, best known for creating AZFinText, a news-aware high-frequency stock trading system.
Schumaker is also known as a Sports Analytics expert for his pioneering work using Twitter tweet sentiment to predict sports outcomes and is currently active in both prescription drug interactions and covid-19 vaccine allergies.
While at the University of Arizona, Schumaker created the Arizona Financial Text (AZFinText) System which machine learns the words used in financial news articles to predict future stock prices.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] Schumaker also works in the field of Sports Analytics authoring numerous papers on greyhound[7] and harness racing prediction[8] as well as using Twitter sentiment to predict Premier League[9] and NFL matches.
[10] He has also authored a book on the subject, Sports Data Mining (2010; ISBN 978-1-4419-6729-9).