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Wiki So Far

So far the research I have done will be focusing on two major sections in the wikis:  Sports and Twitch.tv.

For sports I plan to talk about the data analytics used in MLB over the past few years and how it has impacted the game. Also I want to talk about European Football and how it grown and been impacted by social media over the past few years.

For Twitch I would like to talk about the new DMCA copyright strike has impacted twitch and the streamers on the platform. 

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