Resources Library by ANA

Prediction of customer segments with Neural Nets

The process of categorising customers is traditionally based on simple slotting procedures or more extensive survey data. The first procedure might be inaccurate and/or uncertain, the latter complicated, time- consuming, and most of all expensive. It...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: Telecommunications In A Dynamic Market Place

Authors: Knut Kvaal, Harald Djupvik

June 15, 1996

Why computerised financial reporting and consolidation systems?

Government regulations make it mandatory for all companies to publish their financial data on a periodic basis. Again presentation of the financial data have to conform to certain accounting standards and be approved by the certified public...

Catalogue: EFMA/ESOMAR Seminar 1982: How Research Can Help Financial Organisations Communicate Internally And Externally

Authors: K. S. Radhakrishnan, L. A. Soenen

June 15, 1982

From stream to structure

This paper describes the use of computerised topic analysis to segment and analyse tweets by US presidential election candidates in 2016. The statistical technique used to create the topic is called Latent Dirichlet Analysis (LDA). The paper shows...

Catalogue: Big Data World 2016: Understanding People Through Smart Data

Author: Andrew Jeavons

November 18, 2016

(Wo)man VS. machine: From competition to collaboration

It is no secret that the market research industry is under pressure to deliver sound and strategic insights within shrinking budgets and timeframes. Ten years from now efficiency is predicted to be the number one deciding factor when commissioning...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2017: Back to the future

Author: Samantha Bond

Company: SKIM

November 3, 2017

A new generation of craftsmanship

We set ourselves the challenge of forecasting the future for our insights engine, asking ourselves a series of questions about how we conceive insights across Unilever as a whole, how the field of insights is evolving, and about the needs and...

Catalogue: Congress 2018

Author: Myralda Derks

September 23, 2018

The court case for research

Technological developments are creating new playgrounds for research automation. Evolutions in big data allow us to process massive amounts of data at an unforeseen speed, and the human brain is being surpassed by the rise of smart machine learning...

Catalogue: Congress 2017: Visionary

Authors: Katia Pallini, Annelies Verhaeghe

Company: InSites Consulting

September 4, 2017

Boosting fan engagement

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Catalogue: Congress 2019: The Global Data & Insights Summit

Authors: Pedro Almeida, Nuno Miranda

September 8, 2019

A fully automated quality monitoring system

This paper describes a fully automated quality monitoring system that in essence aims to 'take the researcher out of research'.By reengineering the traditional research process, it is possible to eliminate research turn-around time, let the system...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2004: Technovate 2

Authors: Per Lundgren, Andreas Nergård

Company: Ipsos MRBI

February 1, 2004

Research opportunities through technology

The use of technology has spawned opportunity rather than hindered the growth of researchers. A chain reaction of opportunities can originate from a handful of advancements. From my own experience at M/A/R/C and visiting other researchers, let me...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Are Interviewers Obsolete?

Author: George H. Harmon

June 15, 1984