Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

The largest ever spontaneous collaboration in marketing research industry history!
At exactly 9:00am EST this morning, well over 35 NGMR-Top Bloggers agreed to simultaneously post what they believe are 10 important things to consider for the research industry going forward. More specifically, we agreed to each list what 5 things will continue to be “Hot” and [...]

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Twitter Aggregation For Text Analytics and Data Mining Professionals
Last weekend I set up the NGMR Twitter Daily to summarize tweets by my fellow Next Gen Market Research colleagues. Most of the NGMR members do not know that I also moderate the largest group for Text Analytics professionals on LinkedIn (Data & Text Analytics Professionals - [...]

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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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Web scraping av sociala medier för marknadsundersökningar med Tom H. C. Anderson (Sveriges Marknadsundersökare - SÖK)

Tid: Jun 02, 10:00 - 12:00
Plats: City Conference Center, Drottninggatan 71 B, Stockholm
I de sociala medierna läggs tonvis av information ut och en hel del av den rör varumärken och tjänster som vi är intresserade av i marknadsundersökningssammanhang. Att skrapa rent [...]

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Looking forward to giving one of the ending talks at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium tomorrow afternoon at 4:00. There’s still time to register for the event if you are in New York/Tri-State area.
I’ll try to focus my talk on sentiment in text analytics and how sentiment can be more than just positive, negative and/or neutral.
Lately [...]

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Anderson Analytics Launches Optimist(TM)
Tired of poor survey results due to questionable panel quality? Afraid to conduct market research only to have customers poo-poo managements perfectly good ideas?
Several panel companies like MarketTools and PeanutLabs have launched products to help detect panel fraud and understand who is taking your surveys. Other companies like BrainJuicer have created [...]

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Social Media Market Research and Marketing to Women
Marketing to women expert Maria Reitan interviewed me today on her web radio show Purse Strings. You can listen to the interview below .

The interview above focused a bit more on the tactical text analytics part of social media research than I had anticipated. However, from the several [...]

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Data Privacy on the Web?
As part of the recent BAQMaR Conference in Ghent Belgium, 10 upcoming challenges to the market research industry were identified. Several of the speakers at the event were interviewed about what they thought about them.
One of the topics which I think will become increasingly important is privacy, especially as it relates [...]

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Two North America Talks on Text Analytics
Writing today about two upcoming events where I will be speaking about next gen market research and specifically text analytics. This coming week I will be speaking at MRIA in Ottawa, Canada. The event will be at the Ottawa Shearton on February 18th. More info below.

Also, this coming month, [...]

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