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In the end, the glass of Barolo is desirable and taste’s nice, the process of growing the vines harvesting the grapes, pressing, fermenting and bottling them is a process which is taken for granted. In terms of what happens in opinion research, t...
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UK
What sort of market research are you involved in?
Software architect and developer with a passion for market research. Director of forgetdata who provide the industry with creative technical solutions for data management and customer deliverables.
Website:
http://www.forgetdata.com

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Harvesting Grapes

In the end, the glass of Barolo is desirable and taste’s nice, the process of growing the vines harvesting the grapes, pressing, fermenting and bottling them is a process which is taken for granted.

In terms of what happens in opinion research, the last couple of blogs have really been about fermentation and bottling; its all been about warehousing data. Little has been said about getting the data in or the process which we call Harvesting.

What are the Grapes?
While I am pressing (excu… Continue

Posted on October 6, 2009 at 7:46pm —

Sam Winstanley

Teaching computers to think backwards….

Did you ever stop to think what’s really making survey data unique…? I talk with database people often, some of them work on enormous ultra important data-warehousing systems for banks. They pick on me, they say:

“survey data is simple, you should try building an analysis database from our customer records…my life is hell”

click here to read the rest of the post...

Posted on September 15, 2009 at 6:37pm —

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Where is my data?

Have you ever had the uncomfortable task of assembling an expense report? You really want a number, but to get to that number you are trawling through paper receipts, bank statements, line items on phone bills and so on. All to arrive at what you deem to be the answer.. 1 number that you can call accurate.

When analysing markets or business performance, analysts and researchers are faced with this kind of task all the time. Forced into a position to be able to give a certain figure for whatever… Continue

Posted on September 11, 2009 at 11:30am —

Sam Winstanley

Excel Multi Response Data in SPSS Reporter.

In an unusual turn of events I have now submitted 4 consecutive blog posts that are all technical.. how geeky.

However my latest post follows on from a question that came from previous post about analysing Excel data using SPSS's Reporter tool, specifically Multiple response excel data. The walk through of how to do this can be found here:

http://www.surveyxtreme.com/?p=74

Enjoy!

Posted on August 13, 2008 at 3:30pm —

Sam Winstanley

SPSS Desktop Reporter 5.5

I wrote a new post which explores the new features of SPSS Reporter 5.5 here:
http://www.surveyxtreme.com/?p=47

Posted on July 17, 2008 at 1:30pm —

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Hello,
For getdata is a interesting name!!!
 
 

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