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

Stop Apologizing for the Size of Your Data!

This morning I was pleasantly surprised to hear that I had been included in the list of the 100 Most Influential in Big Data by Big Data Republic. It was an honor to be part of such an interesting group. Several respected analytics colleagues were also on the [...]

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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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Big Data Experts on Hand for Q&A
A bit last minute I know, but wanted to let Next Gen researchers out on the West Coast know about the American Marketing Association’s event next week in San Diego. It’s called Analytics with Purpose: The Human Edge of Big Data and what’s unique about this event is that [...]

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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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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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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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Importance of Sentiment Analysis in Marketing Research Domain

It’s exciting to see more market researchers starting to leverage text analytics including sentiment analysis. My friend Seth Grimes has been a source of information and inspiration to many of us working in text analytics since the outset and ahead of his annual event, the Sentiment Analysis Symposium [...]

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Scientific Text Analysis of 2012 Debates Explains why Obama’s Style May have Out-performed Romney’s

Following up on this weekend’s analysis of the first two presidential debates we added yesterday’s final debate to the analysis. General consensus among viewers and pundits alike seems to be that Romney performed better than expected in the first debate, and Obama [...]

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Obama more certain and positive - Romney more negative and direct

Lately there’s been a craze in analyzing 140 character Tweets to make all sorts of inferences in regard to everything from brand affinity to political opinion. While I’m generally of the position that the best return on investment of text analytics is on large volumes [...]

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