Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

New Year, New Standards…
I’ve been asked to partake in a discussion on the need for, get this “social media research standards” provided by the marketing research trade org nearest you.
Last year it was ISO standards that CASRO and ESOMAR wanted to push. In an tempt to stay relevant and add an extra revenue stream they [...]

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Big Data, Text Analytics and Privacy
Today as part of the Next Gen Market Research Guru series, I’m interviewing Jeff Jonas. Jeff is IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist IBM Entity Analytics. For a quick background on Jeff check out Tuesdays post where I posted an interesting video highlighting some of Jeff’s ideas on Big Open [...]

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Researchers, this Valentine’s do something nice to show respondents you love them

I usually post or tweet this link once a year right before Valentine’s Day because so many people are in the market for a diamond then.
It was a model we built for fun back in 2006. I don’t consider it promotional per se as [...]

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Twitter Aggregation For Text Analytics and Data Mining Professionals
Last weekend I set up the NGMR Twitter Daily to summarize tweets by my fellow Next Gen Market Research colleagues. Most of the NGMR members do not know that I also moderate the largest group for Text Analytics professionals on LinkedIn (Data & Text Analytics Professionals - [...]

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Today just posting a few updates related to upcoming/recent social media and text analytics events.

New York Technology Council - Expert Panel
On July 21st, 6 - 8pm on 46th & Park I will be participating in a panel on social-media analytics, sentiment and text mining. There will be a short presentation before the panel after which [...]

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Happened Upon Interesting Event in Stockholm

I arrived in Stockholm very early Sunday morning for a short business trip. As they didn’t have any rooms ready at 8:00 am my wife and I decided to take a walk around town. Hardly anyone was around so early on a Sunday. Turning the corner by the castle we [...]

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2010 Market Research Conference & Event Updates
I’ve been a bit lax about updating various conferences and events I’ve been speaking at recently. Therefore thought I would briefly list a couple that have just been planned.
Additionally I’ve been asked to help with the Merlien Institute annual qualitative research conference (focused on mobile), including helping to encourage [...]

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Looking forward to giving one of the ending talks at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium tomorrow afternoon at 4:00. There’s still time to register for the event if you are in New York/Tri-State area.
I’ll try to focus my talk on sentiment in text analytics and how sentiment can be more than just positive, negative and/or neutral.
Lately [...]

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Is the market research industry really interested in next gen innovation and quality?
For those of you who haven’t heard yet, the greatest source for B-B market research sample just closed their doors. That’s right, LinkedIn is no longer offering sample to market research suppliers.
For some this news will probably come as a huge relief. For [...]

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Social Media Market Research and Marketing to Women
Marketing to women expert Maria Reitan interviewed me today on her web radio show Purse Strings. You can listen to the interview below .

The interview above focused a bit more on the tactical text analytics part of social media research than I had anticipated. However, from the several [...]

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Data Privacy on the Web?
As part of the recent BAQMaR Conference in Ghent Belgium, 10 upcoming challenges to the market research industry were identified. Several of the speakers at the event were interviewed about what they thought about them.
One of the topics which I think will become increasingly important is privacy, especially as it relates [...]

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