Data integration hurdles
In his conference prestentation today, Tim spoke of the technical and organizational barriers that often need to be overcome when integrating survey research data with data from other sources.
View ArticleCASRO Tech 09 and a field of poppies
t was great to be at CASRO's annual Technology conference again. They have changed the format since I was last there in 2005 and instead of a roster of invited speakers, they now follow the...
View ArticleDo research communities provide a new way to engage with customers for...
Communities do seem to be generating a buzz this year. There is a discussion about whether communities should have an incentive or not, and surprisingly, many of the client-run communities run very...
View ArticleHas the Insight Show overheated?
Technology was an aspect of this week's Insight Show that the exhibition's promoters were majoring on, yet on the ground the number of technology providers exhibiting at the show was thinner than ever....
View ArticleOnline is the future for national statistics
I’m at the First International Workshop on Internet Survey at Daejeon, Korea. It is hosted by Statistics Korea (or Kostat) which has put together an impressive roster of presentations on leading edge...
View ArticleKorean insights into MR
More insights into Korean market and social research emerged in day two of the Internet Survey Workshop in Korea.
View ArticleGetting a better response online (and offline)
The second day of the IWIS09 Internet Workshop in South Korea focused on practical measures and finding in improving response in online surveys (in addtion to those already reported here and
View ArticleMobile fallout – to be ignored at your peril
From the Mobile Research Conference 2010, Globalpark, London, 8-9 March 2010. Mobile research, as a method, may still be in its infancy, but researchers already need to be aware of the fallout from the...
View ArticleThe curse of seeing everything
From Research 2010, MRS, London, 23-24 March 2010 A major issue with post-modern research methods, or ‘new MR’ as it is sometimes called - a recurrent theme at the Research 2010 conference – is the...
View ArticleMobile research growing up fast
Chairing the second day of the 3rd Mobile Research Conference I set myself the task of presenting a round-up of the new ideas at the end of the day. Here's a write-up of what I verbalised at the close...
View ArticleConference Report: Challenges of Automation, ASC, May 2017
Tim Macer reports on ASC’s May 2017 one-day conference in London: “Satisfaction Guaranteed? The Challenges of Automation in Survey Research” Colin Strong, Ipsos MORI, in the conference keynote, said...
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