Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

The 2011 Next Gen Market Research Disruptive Innovation Winners
Thought Leadership:

Ipsos Loyalty (Wallet Allocation Rule)

Research Concept Deployment:

InsightExpress (Ignite Network)

Non-Traditional Provider (Big Data):

RapLeaf

Individual:

Dr. Bill MacElroy, Chairman, Socratic Technologies

Marc Dresner of IIR will be posting a follow up on The Market Research Event (TMRE) blog with a more detailed summary of the awards ceremony [...]

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Call for speakers, Sentiment Analysis research colloquium, Nov 8
The Sentiment Analysis Symposium has added a half-day sentiment analysis research session, Tuesday November 8, 2011 in San Francisco, preceding the November 9, applications-focused symposium.
The program committee is currently looking for presentation submissions through September 23.
Both academic and industry researchers are invited to propose a talk.
Presentations should [...]

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Twelve Social Media Tips for Analytics Professionals
Text Analytics News just published an interview with myself and three analytics professionals who many of you may know (KDnugget’s Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Social Media Today’s Cliff Figallo, and Vincent Granville of AnalyticBridge). We were asked a few questions about the social communities we manage as well as our opinions [...]

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The Best of Text Goes West (Text Analytics in Silicon Valley)
For those of you following the Next Gen Market Research field of Text Analytics, the Text Analytics Summit has been a must attend event for text mining professionals. Typically held in Europe or on the East Coast (Boston MA.), this year Text Analytics News is [...]

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One Digital Metric to Rule Them All - Social Influence

If you’re on Twitter or work with social media I’m sure you’ve heard of Klout. Klout has quickly become the social media influence metric of choice. A few weeks ago I was introduced to their CEO Joe Fernandez, and I thought I’d ask him a few [...]

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Thoughts on Google-Plus Beta

I was recently invited to the Google+ Beta. Feel free to connect if you’re also on there.
Not that I need yet another social network, but as a business person who definitely realizes the value of SEO and social influence it’s impossible to ignore what one of the most powerful corporations on the [...]

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2 Text Questions * 5 Analytics Experts = 10 Text Analytics Gems
Ezra Steinberg who interviewed me last month about Text Analytics and OdinText just published the Q&A below. I think the questions are very relevant for many of us trying to understand social media. I received permission from Text Analytics News (and The 7th [...]

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What the new co. car has to do with text analytics…
I believe this may well be the first Cavalry Blue 2011 Toyota FJ Cruiser to be delivered to the North East. I waited for it to come off the truck, untouched by any Gaijin.
If you’re from around here you can appreciate a good SUV in [...]

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3M Intrapreneurs Design a Cost Saving Internal Survey Research Company - Win NGMR Award
Following up today with a couple of our recent NGMR Award winners, 3M Market Research Managers Sandy Kelly and Dr. Deb Hartman. Before I get into the interview I thought I’d give just a little background on why they were chosen as [...]

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Today just posting a few updates related to upcoming/recent social media and text analytics events.

New York Technology Council - Expert Panel
On July 21st, 6 - 8pm on 46th & Park I will be participating in a panel on social-media analytics, sentiment and text mining. There will be a short presentation before the panel after which [...]

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The Future of Next Gen Market Research (Predictive Analytics)
Not talking about theology here but predictive analytics. Reading KDNuggets today came across this link to Wired with a few Youtube videos from Microsoft. Posted one below on how Microsoft knows where you’re going, maybe even before you do.

For more videos see Wired Epicenter
Not to be outdone though, [...]

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