RIWI CEO Neil Seeman’s book on obesity policy and the proper role of government in fighting obesity — powered by RIWI data — cited by University of Michigan Law Professor James J. White in “Taxing the Platypygous” in the Michigan Journal of Law Reform
World-acclaimed medical ethicist Prof. Andrew Stark applies RIWI data and analytics on changing US attitudes toward end-of-life care in an essay for the US edition of the Huffington Post called “Susan Sontag, William F. Buckley, Jr. and Care at the End of Life”
RIWI cited in analysis by the global Branding Consultancy — Interbrand — questioning the value of “Likes” to generate social currency.
Core to RIWI values is social innovation. President Eric Meerkamper’s Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) launch in Manhattan — Eric is co-founder and Chair of CSI — gets profiled in Fast Company.
Very important and interesting data found in CEO Neil Seeman’s China Epidemic Report. The study tracked 7,016 Chinese “fresh” (i.e. non-panel based) Internet users – with a 24.08% response rate – over 20 hours. RIWI’s data revealed different levels of intensity of public awareness of the contagion (varying by region and by city) across China.
RIWI CEO Neil Seeman and academic colleague Karen Born publish on managing information in healthcare in a peer-reviewed journal: “Social Media in Healthcare: It’s So Five Years Ago?” See here.
RIWI CEO Neil Seeman quoted in The Toronto Star on the need for more real-time clinic inspection results data to be made available to the public. Click here to read.
“The problem with measurement,” Dennis S. O’Leary once said, “is that it can be a loaded gun: dangerous if misused and at least threatening if pointed in the wrong direction.”
Today, in the era of social media and “Big Data”, researchers and consultants salivate because: a) data (e.g. ‘likes,’ tweets, ‘shares’, bit.ly links) are freely available and easy to measure; and b) clients and governments have been primed for decades to believe the more data, the better their decisions.
As the political forecaster Nate Silver has noted, “Big Data will never replace thinking or hypothesis-testing.”
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RIWI CEO Neil Seeman articulates three different visions of the future of the Internet in his column in the Huffington Post. Click here to read.
RIWI President Eric Meerkamper’s article on Smarter Data and the power of Nano-Surveys ™ profiled in the Market Research Association’s monthly journal.
Neil Seeman and Eric Meerkamper of RIWI discuss the crisis of credibility in the market research industry, the challenges of managing data collection, bias and interpretation, and the patented, Nano-Survey ™ ‘Smart Data’ technology RIWI has developed to address these issues. See The Blue Book