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

And what it says about our profession

There’s a question I hear quite often whether at industry conferences, on blogs, or in professional groups on LinkedIn. Researchers, both supplier and even client side, are asking each other for recommendations on free software. Yes, it seems it’s more often for “free” software, once in a while “low [...]

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Text Analytics News - What NASA and OdinText Have in Common

This year I participated on the closing panel at the Text Analytics Summit in Boston. The most interesting presentation at the event was one given by NASA’s Ashok Srivastava on how they are using text analytics to make air travel safer in the US, and [...]

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Big Data, Text Analytics and Privacy
Today as part of the Next Gen Market Research Guru series, I’m interviewing Jeff Jonas. Jeff is IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist IBM Entity Analytics. For a quick background on Jeff check out Tuesdays post where I posted an interesting video highlighting some of Jeff’s ideas on Big Open [...]

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NGMR Disruptive Innovation Winners Sean Conry & AJ Johnson
Today I’m posting the final set of interviews with the 2010 NGMR Disruptive Innovation Award Winners. AJ Johnson of IPSOS and Sean Conry of Technoes both received the Individual category award for their collaboration in the area of mobile research.
For a look at some of their [...]

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…and the dumb cousin of text analytics
First, I want to thank all the Top-NGMR Bloggers who participated in the largest ever spontaneous social media collaboration in market research yesterday. It was an interesting experience for me in so many ways.
I’ve been asked several times if I’m going to summarize the results. I’m actually hoping to [...]

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World’s Coolest and Sexiest Researcher
Today we have an additional 5 Next Gen Market Research Meme’s being submitted from two researchers. I’m glad to see that the NGMR meme competition has already sparked similar competitions elsewhere in our industry. Imitation is after all the highest form of compliment.

Proving Cool Researchers don’t have to be male, and [...]

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1870 Statistical Atlas of the Ninth Census
 

After all the interest in yesterdays post about the census I did a bit of googling and found a copy of the 9th census online. Antiquated race terminology aside, I’ve got to say, the data visualization is quite impressive especially when you consider they are 140 years old! Heat [...]

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