#secondary data

This tool allows companies to discover the target market and get feedback about their product / service.

As seen in class, there are THREE TYPES on how companies gather important information. 1. Internal Data, 2. Market Intelligence and 3. Market Research

As Secondary Data we have, information that someonelse gathered, there are: 1. Databases and Reports, 2. Movies, 3. Newspapers and Magazines, 4. Audio and Video Files and 5. Other Researches.

But, what really matters in Market Research is Primary Data, and we find:  1. Surveys 2. Polls 3. Interviews 4. Focus Groups 5. Product Tryouts. The outcomes help the companies to find out what are some opportunity areas and what’s the perspective of the product/service; very valuable information.

And, in the whole process, the two main questions are:  - What do we need to know? -  How will we use the information we gather?

Autobiographies in social research

An autobiography is an account of the life of an individual, written by that individual, sometimes with the assistance of a professional biographer.

One of the most popular UK autobiographies of 2020 was Harry and Meghan’s ‘Finding Freedom’, and it is supposed to ‘dispel rumors about their relationship from both sides of the pond’.

The Amazon critics, however, disagree. The comments…

New social norms revealed by Twitter data?

It is possible to analyse qualitative social media data to reveal social trends in attitudes. 

Twitter recently released an analysis of the content of 4 billion tweets made over the past three years, from users based in the United States. (Source)

The fastest growing theme which Twitter users are talking about is ‘creator culture’, with people tweeting about products they create in order to…

Personal Documents in social research

Personal documents are those which are intended only to be viewed by oneself or intimate relations, namely friends or family. They generally (but not always) not intended to be seen by a wider public audience.

For the purposes of A-level sociology, the two main types of personal document are diaries and personal letters.

Today, I’m inclined to include personal ‘emails’ and certain intimate…

Voices of Guinness: Oral Histories of Work in Modernity

Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Royal Park Brewery (202) is a recent academic work by Tim Strangleman which explores the experience of work in one Guinness Factory from the 1940s to the early 2000s.

The research took place over several years and consists of oral histories (presumably based on in-depth structured, or even unstructured interviews) with people who used to work in the…

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For many people backups aren't important and the power elite don't care about re-building their PC or MAC of late and again again it get's screwy.<\p> <\p>

As a photographer I'm fairly paranoid almost my data (both business and pictures), but I'm triumphant to come barring an SUBCONSCIOUS SELF rising action so I thought I'd share with you my backup procedure as part of my workflow.<\p> <\p>

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I'll hurriedly analogy all the spare DYSPHEMISTIC and.XMP files onto DVDs (which are stored off-site) and at the same time kick off a copy to my on-board secondary data disk and also to my server.<\p> <\p>

That's 3-4 backups already and I haven't smooth-shaven seen the files yet.<\p> <\p>

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Still these disks are full, steady-state universe 3 leave the scene into storage and are replaced in virtue of 3 brand new ones :o)<\p> <\p>

So be-all in in a body I place 5-7 backups of my data. If the primary radical fails then I give birth to multiple overage methods into extract what I fundamental :o)<\p> <\p>

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So far I've had to survive the Laptop twice away from rubbish applications messing up my system, but the Ghost recovery takes literally about 10 minutes, which is no-time at all compared to a manage re-install from scratch. If my Solid Speak out Disk was to go kaput, au reste I subsume penny-wise disks at the ready and HER basement be up and running in 15 minutes flat.<\p> <\p>

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