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

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Anderson Analytics’ New Text Analytics Platform OdinText Positioned to Challenge Status Quo
[Re-posted from OdinText.com Blog]
Anderson Analytics’ OdinText was named as a key challenger to competitors IBM, SAS, Clarabridge and Attensity last week in both the ‘Go to Market Strength’ and ‘Customer Experience Strength’ Quadrants of the 2013 Text Analytics Victory Index Report.
The Customer Experience Strength category [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Text Analytics News Interview
Text Analytics News posted a Q&A with myself and Seth Grimes on their blog. We were asked how we have seen the field develop and what we think is to come. While our answers to specific questions differed slightly, we we’re both very optimistic about the future. You can read the full [...]

[Read more →]

Social Media Analytics Expert Interview Series: Part 2 of 2
Last week ahead of the Social Media Analytics Summit, Useful Social Media published the second part of their Expert Interview Series (Link below). Incidentally, this week in the current issue of Inside Research (”The Bible of the Market Research Industry”), IR also published the results of [...]

[Read more →]

Interesting Q&A about Social Media and Text Analytics

Text Analytics News just published an interesting panel interview on the Social Media Summit website with myself, Dana Jacob who is Sr. Manager of Social Media Insights & Analytics of Yahoo!, Judy Pastor who is Principal Operations Research Manager of American Airlines, Usher Lieberman Director of Corporate [...]

[Read more →]