Tom H. C. Anderson - More Than Market Research

KDnuggets.com posted a poll asking readers if they expected more or less business for data/text mining and analytic services. Most of us expect it actually to be good for business!

Perhaps business have realized that DM is actually an even better investoment/ROI in leaner times?
-Tom

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Anderson Analytics’ Tom H. C. Anderson to speak on text analytics in market research and competitive intelligence at University of Connecticut, Stamford July 9th

For those back from their 4th of July vacations and interested in how to apply text mining in market research and competitive intelligence, I’ve been invited to speak at the University of Connecticut, Stamford by […]

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I was very pleasantly surprised and honored yesterday to have the paper I presented on Text Analytics in Market Research at the ESOMAR Innovate conference nominated for the best ESOMAR paper of the year award!
My presentation which was based on the paper took the audience through 3 case studies. A hospitality guest satisfaction case from […]

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My colleague, Jesse Chen, is in North Carolina this week for the American Marketing Associations’ (AMA) Advanced Research Techniques (ART) Forum. He is there as a poster session presenter on Anderson Analytics text mining methodologies and I asked him how the conference was going so far. 
“Some of the interesting sessions yesterday included, Vicki Morwitz from […]

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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
In case you are still deciding which conferences you will attend as things slow down during the June - July months, I thought I would mention a few that Anderson Analytics will be speaking at.
With the increased interest in text analytics most of our talks this summer will focus on how to […]

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I recently took part in a roundtable discussion hosted by Joshua Bull of Text Analytics News, the organization that hosts the annual Text Analytics Summit both here in the US as well as in Europe. Joshua asked us a few interesting questions about Text Analytics/Text Mining. I’ve posted the Text Analytics News summary of the […]

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I started this blog partly because Anderson Analytics was doing a lot of text mining projects, some of which involved blog data, and I wanted to learn more about blogging from the bloggers POV. I’ve learned a lot about the positive aspects of blogging already like SEO and the web traffic benefits. However, as if […]

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According to McKinsey, High Performing Companies all use NLP and don’t mix their Segmentation strategy with CRM and Direct Mail
In this month’s Research World (ESOMAR) magazine there’s an interesting review of a study done by McKinsey among Europe’s leading companies and how they are coping with market change. The results are very similar to those […]

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Corporate Reaction to Generation Y Star Miley Cyrus’ (Hannah Montana) “Nude” Vanity Fair Picture Shoot

Today one of the most searched terms on Google Trends is for Hannah Montana star “Miley Cyrus”. There’s a lot of talk about her recent shoot in Vanity Fair magazine being to risqué. She has apologized to Disney and her fans. […]

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Absolut Vodka Gets “Grade of C” in Handling Web 2.0 PR Fiasco, So Far
On April 16th I posted a somewhat whimsical comparison of Americans and Chinese to my blog. It was a half serious political analysis; really it was a reaction to the reaction of AdAge and other US bloggers to a recent Absolut Vodka […]

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