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

Twitter Data and War Games
It seems everywhere you turn there’s talk of Big Data especially unstructured Big Data. Most of the time what they’re really talking about though is “Social Media Monitoring”. It’s a sin to call social media monitoring a bubble if you work anywhere in the analytics space.
Social media monitoring isn’t questioned because [...]

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Two weeks ago, I told you I planned to do a series of interviews with the 10 most influential people in social media I could find. Doing an interview with 10 people, even a relatively short/fun one, takes a lot more time than I thought. I’m really an unstructured data analyst during the day and [...]

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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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Should Micro Segments Matter? (Random Waxing on Text Analytics and Brand Equity)

In 1638 the New Sweden Company established a colony on the Delaware River. Between 1846 and 1930 roughly 1.3 million people, about 20% of the Swedish population at the time left the country, the majority for the USA. By 1900, there were close to [...]

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Who influences you most on Social Media?

I think occasionally it’s good for market researchers to stop and listen to what the marketers have to say. So I’m planning to reach out to a few of my most influential ‘social media friends’ for an NGMR blog interview.
I’m thinking of folks who are really influential about social [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The challenge for social media analytics is in going deeper not just broader
Business 2 Community did a short interview with me yesterday asking a few questions about social media and text analytics. It’s up on their site now in case you’re interested.

I think social media analytics has a lot of growing up to do. Now [...]

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NGMR Text Analytics Predictions for 2012

Though I’ve been posting predictions all week I haven’t made any myself yet. Today I added my own prediction (at the bottom of this post). I wrote it before reading any of the others I received.
Looking over all the thoughtful prognostications from the ‘who’s who of text analytics’ below, while [...]

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