Here are some places you can start looking
for psychographic data.
Not exact matches
(Whether the 50 million affected Facebook users will be notified that their
data was used to build «
psychographic profiles»
for the purposes of shaping their political beliefs remains to be seen.)
Scott Tranter, a founder of the
data - analytics firm Optimus who was on the
data team
for Republican Sen. Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential bid, told Business Insider that the
psychographic modeling that Cambridge Analytica touted «isn't proven science» and that that was at least partially why some thought the service was nothing special.
But both Brad Parscale, who ran the Trump campaign's
data operation, and Matt Oczkowski, the chief product officer
for Cambridge Analytica, have said the campaign didn't use
psychographic targeting based on people's personality types.
Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called «
psychographic» profiling, meaning they use
data collected online to create personality profiles
for voters.
Though the deal fell through, a Palantir employee continued working with Cambridge to figure out how to obtain
data for psychographic profiles.
Cambridge's so - called
psychographic modeling techniques, which were built in part with the
data harvested from Facebook, underpinned its work
for Mr. Trump's campaign in 2016, setting off a furious — and still unsettled — debate about whether the firm's technology worked.
In the latest turn of the developing scandal around how Facebook's user
data wound up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica —
for use in the in development in
psychographic profiles that may or may not have played a part in the election victory of Donald Trump — the company has taken the unusual step of suspending the account of the whistleblower who helped expose the issues.
For its part, CA has hedged about whether it even used Kogan's research: It's repeatedly claimed that «psychographics» — the original Cambridge personality profile data — played no significant part in its work for the Trump campai
For its part, CA has hedged about whether it even used Kogan's research: It's repeatedly claimed that «
psychographics» — the original Cambridge personality profile
data — played no significant part in its work
for the Trump campai
for the Trump campaign.
According to Kosinski, Kogan found a way to mirror the
data and methodology being used
for the myPersonality experiment, which he referred to as «
psychographics.»
But before the general election, the Trump campaign dropped Cambridge Analytica
for the Republican National Committee
data, reportedly never using any of the «
psychographic» information.
Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called «
psychographic» profiling, meaning it uses
data collected online to create personality profiles
for voters.
More details have emerged about how Facebook
data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica
for building
psychographic profiles
You may not have the luxury of bringing your customers into your office
for a face - to - face discussion, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be talking directly to your buyers to figure out some of the
psychographic data you need.
I first learned about Cambridge Analytica because it was involved in the invasive
data collection and targeting practices of the Ted Cruz presidential campaign,
for which Cambridge Analytica used its mythologized
psychographic profiling and targeting capabilities.
Cambridge's work
for the Cruz campaign ultimately proved uneven, according to campaign officials, who said that while the firm's
data scientists were impressive, the
psychographic analysis did not bear fruit as hoped.
«It's how little work they did
for the Trump campaign and the fact that they did zero
psychographic data work.»
But the biggest problem
for the theory that stolen Facebook
data was the key to Trump's election is this: according to a March 2017 Times story, «Cambridge executives now concede that the company never used
psychographics in the Trump campaign.»
The fledgling company courted groups on the right
for work on the 2014 midterms with pitches about its «
psychographic» profiling, which relied in part on
data that appears to have been obtained improperly from tens of millions of American users of Facebook.
For computer and
data scientists who work on dating apps, that translates roughly into helping users find love, using mathematical reasoning to identify prospective matches, and asking users to input location, biographic, demographic and
psychographic information.
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psychographics - conduct primary and secondary research - gather qualitative and quantitative
data - create questionnaires - investigate media language and signs - explore representation - analyse own media consumption - investigate audience profiles
for television - investigate newspaper audiences
About 30 million of those (a number previously reported by The Intercept) contained enough information
for Cambridge Analytica to match profiles with other
data and complete its «
psychographic» work — learning about individuals and trying to target them with personally tailored messages.
In the latest turn of the developing scandal around how Facebook's user
data wound up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica —
for use in the in development in
psychographic profiles that may or may not have played a part in the election victory of Donald Trump — the company has taken the unusual step of suspending the account of the whistleblower who helped expose the issues.
More details have emerged about how Facebook
data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica
for building
psychographic profiles
Even if Cambridge Analytica correctly assigned every American to one of its 32
psychographic categories AND linked those profiles to a national voter file, the
data would only become useful if the Trump communications operation was crafting distinct messages
for each of the categories.
Cambridge Analytica builds «
psychographic profiles»
for the campaign using Facebook
data.
Its CEO, Alexander Nix, claims in a presentation entitled «The Power of Big
Data and Psychographics» (which can be found on Youtube5) that Cambridge Analytica has used OCEAN personality tests in combination with data mined from social media to produce «psychographic profiles» — models that predict personality traits — for every adult in Amer
Data and
Psychographics» (which can be found on Youtube5) that Cambridge Analytica has used OCEAN personality tests in combination with
data mined from social media to produce «psychographic profiles» — models that predict personality traits — for every adult in Amer
data mined from social media to produce «
psychographic profiles» — models that predict personality traits —
for every adult in America.
Cambridge's work
for the Cruz campaign ultimately proved uneven, according to campaign officials, who said that while the firm's
data scientists were impressive, the
psychographic analysis did not bear fruit as hoped.
«It's how little work they did
for the Trump campaign and the fact that they did zero
psychographic data work.»
The firm's so - called
psychographic modeling techniques, which were built in part with the
data harvested from Facebook, underpinned its work
for the Trump campaign in 2016, though many have questioned their effectiveness.
So - called
psychographic modeling techniques, which were built in part with the
data harvested from Facebook, underpinned Cambridge Analytica's work
for the Trump campaign in 2016.
But the biggest problem
for the theory that stolen Facebook
data was the key to Trump's election is this: according to a March 2017 Times story, «Cambridge executives now concede that the company never used
psychographics in the Trump campaign.»
Cambridge's so - called
psychographic modeling techniques, which were built in part with the
data harvested from Facebook, underpinned its work
for the Trump campaign in 2016, setting off a furious debate about the merits of the firm's methods.
That
data may then have been used
for «
psychographic» profile and to target US voters more precisely with political ads, though this is not clear.
More details have emerged about how Facebook
data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica
for building
psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages
for the Trump campaign.
«The ease with which an attacker can harvest and collect demographic and
psychographic data on targets is astounding,» said James Scott, senior fellow at the Institute
for Critical Infrastructure Technology.
An ex-contractor from the
data analytics firm, which uses
psychographic profiling to change behaviour, revealed to The Observer on Sunday that the company had accessed profile
data on more than 50 million Facebook users, which it used
for to help bolster Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016.
Alexander Nix, the Cambridge Analytica CEO captured on a sting video released this week, met with then - campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to make a pitch
for the
data - mining company's voter target products, including its so - called
psychographic method.
More details have emerged about how Facebook
data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica
for building
psychographic...
Job activities that Research Analysts typically perform include monitoring and forecasting market trends, measuring the results of marketing campaigns, using statistical software, conducting demographic and
psychographic research, creating buyer personas, crafting methods
for data collection, crafting reports and presenting
data to project stakeholders.
On the other side of the equation, he says sellers will be able to use big
data to input highly accurate specs
for their home and neighbourhood and then target an increasingly select group of «ideal» buyers with matching
psychographic profiles — it'll become clearer who to target and how to target them.
Inglis says that, very soon, long - term behavioural
data, social media interactions, browsing history and psycho - and demographic factors will inform individual
psychographic profiles
for buyers.