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

Twitter Data and War Games
It seems everywhere you turn there’s talk of Big Data especially unstructured Big Data. Most of the time what they’re really talking about though is “Social Media Monitoring”. It’s a sin to call social media monitoring a bubble if you work anywhere in the analytics space.
Social media monitoring isn’t questioned because [...]

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Coke Says No Boost from Social Buzz – Should You Care?
Guess what, “Coca-Cola recently learned that Social Buzz doesn’t correlate with it’s short term sales”.
No Kidding – this shouldn’t really be a surprise to anyone, yet the value of both social media and social media monitoring is being debated as a result of this “news”.
Here’s [...]

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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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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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A past time even less productive than tweeting
This past week I was invited to speak on text analytics at the MRMW 2012. The event was extremely well attended and I’m excited about the opportunity for text analytics in mobile.
Because of our early work in social media analysis with firms like Facebook and LinkedIn I was [...]

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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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9 Social Media Efficiency Tips & Thoughts on Desired Research Insights
(10 Top Social Media Influencers Series Final of VIII)
Over the last few days we’ve talked a bit about what influencers think works and doesn’t work. As a conclusion to this influencer series here on NGMR I asked for a few tips for those wishing to [...]

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Have you been given bad social media advice?
(10 Top Social Media Influencers Series Part VII)
In regard to social media, many of us can agree to disagree. Sometimes, especially in relation to PR, it seems ‘experts’ outnumber clients. While I believe data and text mining hold the key to unlocking a large part of the question [...]

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