What your search is telling us: Using search data to assess competition
In this article, the data science team shows that data related to searches correlate with and predict sales and are therefore very helpful for competition analysis.
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Data Visualisation: Crossing the line
Written by Tristan Salmon and James Forster In this article, the data science team illustrate intuitive ways to explore and visualise complex data using the example of the how, where, when and who of the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditional charts (and in particular, line charts) are very popular in economic consulting. At their best, they present … Continued
Game, Set and Fuzzy match
Written by Bhargav Bharadwaj, Antoine Gracia Victoria, Wiktor Owczarz and Waldemar Schuppli Fuzzy matching is a set of data science techniques that save critical time and reduce the risk of human error when matching string variables (e.g., customer names) in large, distinct datasets, for example, to assess the closeness of competition between merging firms, or … Continued
Compass Lexecon Appoints Chief Economist at Ofgem as Senior Vice President and Head of Research
Compass Lexecon is excited to announce that the exceptional economist Joe Perkins will join the firm’s London office in June 2020 in a strategic new role as Head of Research in addition to providing expert advice on consulting projects. Joe has been Chief Economist at Ofgem since July 2016 and was an All Souls Prize Fellow at Oxford University.