Research Tools Radar for May 8th 2024
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Hi there,
Welcome to our Research Tools Radar, your weekly dose of tech research inspiration and a digest of essential industry news.
Tired of cat videos? Try one of a furry robot dog that a robotics company built in Boston among our interesting reads.
More new research tools in the directory and lots of product updates below.
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Mike
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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
Feedback Avatars is an AI interviewing solution that delivers a more engaging, conversational feedback experience for participants.
Kantar Innovation and Product Development includes automated solutions for idea, concept, and packaging testing.
Nichefire is a predictive cultural trends intelligence platform for uncovering emerging consumer trends and finding opportunities for growth.
Datality is a marketplace for buying and selling research datasets from a wide range of industries, geographies, and methodologies.
Foxintelligence is an e-commerce insights and data platform with the world’s largest e-commerce panel and billions of transactional emails.
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🎉 Product Updates
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
Ayda Announces its next-gen Research Operations Suite with updates to participant management, direct payments, and consent documentation.
Oh, how things change. Alchemer, one of the pioneers of pure DIY surveys, builds its own research agency to better meet customer needs.
GWI makes its data available in respondent-level format in the Snowflake Data Marketplace.
Blocksurvey adds new security and encryption features to help with respondent privacy and data quality.
Analytics platform Similarweb announces an open beta of SAM, an AI-powered sales assistant.
Product experience platform Sprig launches “Feedback”, a tool that offers insights on website usability and helps resolve bugs.
Qualtrics unveils new AI-powered capabilities within its Strategy & Research Suite.
Salesforces’ Tableau introduced new capabilities for its gen AI tools.
AI interviewing platform Voicepanel closes a funding round $2.5m better off.
Sprinklr unveils AI-powered innovations across the Sprinklr Unified-CXM platform.
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📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
A new study demonstrates that LLMs can match (and surpass) human accuracy in forecasting real-world events.
How do you make dystopian tech less terrifying? Wrap it in fur, obvs. Robotics company Boston Dynamics released a video of its furry robot dog called “Sparkles”.
Predicted in the 1970s by Kraftwerk’s Computer Love: lonely high schoolers are turning to AI assistants as empathetic friends and therapists.
Make Polling Great Again. With AI. And micro-targeting of campaign messages. Oh boy. Trump’s one-time campaign manager promises a “bold new era” for this election season as he boosterizes his own AI tool.
ChatGPT’s challenger, Claude, is catching up. See a detailed comparison here.