Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research™

Text Analytics World Q&A
Those of you also interested in Text Analytics may want to check out this Q&A just posted by Tom Reamy of Text Analytics World. Tom asked me and Jeremy Bentley, CEO of SmartLogic, 5 questions about the future of text analytics:
http://www.textanalyticsworld.com/press-room/interviews
Also, while traditionally most Text Analytics events have been here on the [...]

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Just writing today to thank RLF for the kind words and thoughtful Ginny Valentine Award ceremony last week in New York. I was both honored and humbled to be recognized together with several great research colleagues. I’m pleased that so many fellow researchers have found the Next Gen Market Research Group as useful as I [...]

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Big Data Experts on Hand for Q&A
A bit last minute I know, but wanted to let Next Gen researchers out on the West Coast know about the American Marketing Association’s event next week in San Diego. It’s called Analytics with Purpose: The Human Edge of Big Data and what’s unique about this event is that [...]

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Several Impressive Nominations - Three Winners

Each year the 20,000 Next Gen Market Research group members are asked to nominate the firms and individuals they believe are most innovative. This year our eight Regional Moderators (The NGMR Board of Advisors) carefully considered nominations from 30 firms and several talented market research professionals across three categories.

This week at [...]

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Importance of Sentiment Analysis in Marketing Research Domain

It’s exciting to see more market researchers starting to leverage text analytics including sentiment analysis. My friend Seth Grimes has been a source of information and inspiration to many of us working in text analytics since the outset and ahead of his annual event, the Sentiment Analysis Symposium [...]

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The Future of Text Analytics

I look forward to participating in the closing panel on the future of text analytics at Text Analytics World in Boston tomorrow afternoon (agenda here).
This year Text Analytics world dove tailed with Predictive Analytics World event so should be a nice quantitative group.
Please come up and say hello if you’ll be [...]

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Market Research Academics, Clients, and Suppliers,
It’s that time of year again when we look for nominations for the 2012 NGMR and EXPLOR Awards.
Winners will be honored at The Marketing Research Event in Boca Raton FL this November.
We encourage early submission. More information on how to nominate someone for the 2012 NGMR Award celebrating Innovation in [...]

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In a more competitive event market, researchers still value innovation
What is Next Gen Market Research? Depending on who you talk to it may mean different things. Some like me think of advanced analytics and big data (both structured and unstructured), others might say gamification, neuroscience, social media monitoring, MROC’s or mobile.
Clients like P&G are beginning [...]

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Does Convergence of Ad Media Require Convergence of Research?
For the past several years now my firm’s media industry clients have been asking us to help measure ad effectiveness of more complex campaigns. Many media sales today go beyond traditional TV ads and also frequently include a combination of various banner ads across online networks, social [...]

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