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Research alchemy

This presentation examines the challenges involved in making excessive amounts of often disparate information relevant and practical to senior management.It illustrates a process for bringing together the worlds of qualitative, quantitative and...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Carl Nagle, Helen Williams, Kristin Hickey

Company: The Leading Edge

September 19, 2007

Web 2.0 and beyond

Web 2.0 enables users to generate, disseminate and share previously unheard of amounts of information within the web. This necessarily creates information overload, much of it useless to corporations, thus obscuring highly valuable bits and...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Marc Drüner, Werner Remmele

September 19, 2007

Towards a new view of evaluation

Determining 'quality' in media research often assigns much influence to survey response rates. Increasing scientific evidence suggests a more sophisticated viewpoint about survey quality is needed.An alternative framework for evaluating the quality...

Catalogue: WM3 2007

Authors: Ed Cohen, Ricardo Gomez-Insausti, Robert Groves

Company: Nielsen

June 3, 2007

Great results from ambiguous sources

Rapidly increasing reliance on Internet panels as a sample source has led to data quality problems. Validation and data cleaning procedures common from telephone and in-person interviewing have not kept pace with these new methods.This paper details...

Catalogue: Panel Research 2006

Authors: Reg Baker, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Joanne Mechling

October 8, 2006

Ensuring data integrity for business decisions

While online panels can reduce the cost and time it takes to undertake research, there is often little understanding of how the quality of the panel affects data integrity and importantly the ability to make reliable business decisions based on the...

Catalogue: Panel Research 2006

Authors: Birgi Martin, Jenny Koo, David Day, Ralph Risk

Company: Kantar

October 8, 2006

Innovative approaches

It has become increasingly critical for the market research industry to provide deeper analysis, more compelling insights and highly actionable recommendations generated from the consumer research we provide to clients. This perhaps in large part...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2006

Author: Marla Commons

October 8, 2006

Clearing the eMist

The paper focuses on issues associated with ethical behaviour and research on the internet. The authors note the reasons for increased interest in research on the internet and describe the link between ethical behaviour and research quality,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2000: The Impact Of Networking

Authors: Ian Brace, John Pallister, Clive Nancarrow

September 23, 2001

Exploiting analytical advances

This paper considers the implications of new analytic advances on Internet-based surveys of non-random samples. The empirical evidence presented indicate that Internet-based forecasts in the 2000 U.S. elections were two times more accurate than...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference Worldwide Online Measurement 2001

Authors: George Terhanian, Renee Smith, John Bremer, Randall K. Thomas

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

June 1, 2001

Improving market researcher's contribution to business decision making

This paper in the form of a ten-step guide is aimed at helping improve the quality of information-based business decision making. The paper encourages information suppliers to think more closely about ways in which they can help their decision making...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Global Healthcare 2001: Changes In Competitive Dynamics

Author: David Smith

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

April 1, 2001