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

Next Gen Market Research Oldest and Most Active Online Networking Group for Analytics Professionals
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Editor of KDnuggets just conducted an analysis of all the top Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science groups on LinkedIn with at least 7,000 members. He found that even though membership is strict and we have a zero [...]

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Are there multiple answers to every question?
There are several simple ‘order of operations’ problems (memes) circulating on Facebook currently. This past weekend I saw this one “6-1×0+2÷2=?”. Over 2,500 people had answered it, 624 had liked it and 243 had shared it. Interestingly I noticed at least half of people have forgotten their order of [...]

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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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2012 Most Read NGMR Blog Posts

From Text Analytics to Market Research Awards and Predictions, 2012 was a busy year within the Next Gen Market Research community. Below are the 15 most popular blog posts of the year in rank order.

Practical Sentiment Analysis and Lies
The Year of Text Analytics
Next Gen Market Research C-Suite Predictions
Text Analysis of [...]

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In 2013 NGMR Professionals Officially Retire the Profession Screener Question

Market research professionals certainly get attached to their survey questions. Much has been written about the hotly debated and supposed ‘Only Question You Ever Need to Ask’ (NPS). But rarely do market researchers think critically about the questions that are less important and asked simply out [...]

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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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Are you a marketing researcher half way between NYC and Boston?
Fairfield County CT and Westchester County NY is the gold coast of marketing research, yet there are few if any marketing research events in our area.
Last year we held the first NGMR Meetup as a way for the research community in our area to get [...]

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What is your research type?
Greenbook’s 2012 GRIT report was released yesterday including this year’s list of the top 50 companies mentioned as being most innovative by researchers. I have to admit it was nice to see Anderson Analytics in the top 15 even though NGMR did not officially participate in the study. We dropped [...]

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