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Find Value in Online/Social Text and Sentiment: Free Report, Conferences
Seth Grimes announces a free report on text and content analytics, symposium on sentiment analysis in San Francisco (Nov 9) and the Text Analytics Summit in San Jose, CA Nov 10-11. [read more]
Rexer Data Mining Survey Results
Karl Rexer has just released the results from his annual survey of data miners – RexerAnalytics.com/Data-Miner-Survey-Results-2010.html. This year 735 data miners responded to an extended survey. This post provides interesting facts from this year’s results [read more]
An Interview with a Market Research Expert - Tom H. C. Anderson
Today I'm introducing a brand new series to my blog and you've been lucky enough to start reading it from the very beginning! This series of articles will focus on interviews with the very best people in market research from around world. Today's interview was conducted over email with Tom H. C. Anderson, Founder and Managing Partner of Anderson Analytics. [read more]
Inside a Consumer's Mind with Text Analytics
So far we have seen several examples on how Predictive Analytics applied in Social Media and Blog posts can help us suggest better strategies in Marketing, Branding, Sales and PR . This post is a walk-through example on how we can choose a concept, extract what users write about this concept on Twitter, get insights on how consumers... [read more]
Text Analytics Guru: Interview with Seth Grimes
Anderson Analytics’ Tom H. C. Anderson speaks with Seth Grimes about text mining. If you know of text analytics you know of Seth Grimes, he is a true Text Analytics Guru. While I may know everything there is to know about text analytics in market research, Seth’s knowledge is far broader encompassing all of Business intelligence (BI).... [read more]
Banks, Risk Disclosure and Text Analytics
A UK-based MSc student of Kingston Business School - Christos Gkemitzis- had an idea for his MSc project which immediately caught my attention : Use Text Analytics methods to annual reports given by Banks and extract metrics on how these Banks handle their Credit and Interest rate risk and then test several hypotheses (Do Banks of a... [read more]
Concept Trending : A Glimpse into the future?
In the previous post some ideas were presented on the trends of Text Analytics. Analyzing and extracting knowledge from text is a hard thing, whether this involves Sentiment Analysis, Text Classification, Cluster Analysis or Information Extraction.A particularly interesting application of Text Analytics is the identification of trends... [read more]
The future and trends of Text Analytics
I recently attended a GATE seminar on the University of Sheffield. Having used GATE for quite some time now, i was happy to see that the GATE team is well committed to developing the GATE Text Analysis Workbench by constantly adding more functionality. Although many of the participants were PhD students i was also happy to see people... [read more]
What is Your Market Research Identity?
Is it time to slaughter your sacred research cows? The relative interest in the recent post about the census surprised me a little. Not that I didn’t expect there to be traffic, after all census is something that affects everyone, and race is always a hot button topic. What surprised me was what a sacred cow the census is to some... [read more]
Twitter and Text Analysis to Help You Surf Through Traffic
The first official SAP iPhone application is already available on iTunes. Unfortunately, it’s probably not much use to you unless you happen to be reading this in Brisbane, Australia. But the free application, created by the folks in the SAP Research center who brought you the Google Wave / SAP “Gravity” prototype, is a wonderful... [read more]
#25: Here's a thought...
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:And the customer is...A critical first step for your company is to develop your definition of a customer. Don't underestimate either the importance or the difficulty of this process. And don't assume it is simply a matter of... [read more]
The Promise and Perils of Text Analytics -- Privacy
Text analytics may be the next wave of computer analysis. In contrast to quantitative analytics, text analytics broadens mining raw source data beyond numbers to include words, phrases and sentences – alpha characters. The potential of text analytics’ applications and benefits are endless. They range from marketers more quickly,... [read more]
Monitoring your brand: Sentiment analysis
Earlier this year at SAP's Business Suite 7 launch I saw a demo of some text analytics capability developed by Business Objects for sentiment analysis used as a kind of an online sentiment monitor feeding into SAP CRM. Interesting concept and one that is increasingly compelling for businesses as more and more real time social content... [read more]
Best Market Research Survey Ever
Short, Sweet and Insightful - The Future of Surveys is Text Analytics Yesterday there was a post on the Next Gen Market Research Group (NGMR) on LinkedIn asking “What’s the shortest questionnaire you ever wrote?” I took a look at this blog as I thought I would have posted the survey below previously but apparently it had slipped my mind... [read more]
Enabling Exploration Through Text Analytics
As promised, here are my slides from the recently held Text Analytics Summit. Feel free to download them from SlideShare–some of the animation may not come through in this version (though I try to use such animation sparingly). I enjoyed the conference, and was pleasantly surprised by the overall intellectual level of participants, who... [read more]
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Webinar: Making Sense of Service Organization Audits
When: Tue, 2012-02-14 02:00
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