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

Q&A, SAS 2013, and PayPal combines SixSigma with Text Analytcis
Just posting today briefly to mention a few things. First, on Seth Grimes’ new blog, Breakthrough Analysis, he recently asked me a couple of questions about OdinText/Text Analytics and Big Data in general. The title ‘Think Mid Data, and Triangulate’ may be a little misleading as [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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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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Test your text analytics knowledge to win a Text Analytics Summit pass

The 8th Annual Text Analytics Summit is just around the corner, June 12-13 in Boston. As usual I’ll be speaking at the summit and Anderson Analytics’ OdinText is a proud sponsor of the event. Last year we decided to give away a free event pass [...]

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Q&A with Prof. Bing Liu ahead of the Sentiment Analysis Symposium and Pre Symposium Tutorial
The Sentiment Analysis Symposium in NYC is just a month away (May 8th), so I thought I’d check out who was teaching the pre conference sentiment analysis tutorial this year. For those of us working with text analytics and in the [...]

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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 [...]

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What IS Social Media Analytics- Can we Agree?

Social Media Data is a commodity - Tools and approaches are not.
(Social Media Expert Interview Series Part 3 of 3 - Part 1, Part 2)
I just did a brief panel interview with Useful Social Media ahead of the Social Media Analytics Summit. We were asked four very interesting [...]

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