Google Domestic Trends for Predictive Validity

Back in June, Ray Poynter shared some great tips for how market researchers can use Google Insights for Search (see How to use Google Insights as a research tool [PDF]). In that same spirit, I want to encourage U.S. market researchers to check out Google Domestic...

Which Pre-Election Poll was Most Accurate?

Which public poll came closest to the actual 2012 presidential election results? Costas Panagopoulos, Ph.D., director of Fordham’s Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy and associate professor of political science, has ranked which polling organizations...

Cartograms: A Visualization Technique for Researchers

As market researchers seek out better visualization techniques, it is worth investigating the cartogram. A cartogram is a map in which geographic entities (counties, states or countries) are resized according to any dimension of interest: population, sales, or – given...

The Art of Storytelling – For Innovation

A common theme this afternoon at the Front End of Innovation conference was using storytelling for powering innovation and navigating change. Noelle Chun, Storyteller & Digital Strategist for Yahoo!, provided “a highly tactical, practical useful guide to...