The Best Place to Learn All Things Data

The Best Place to Learn All Things Data

Every year I peruse the listings of summer college training courses on research methods. Part of it is nostalgia—I loved school. But I’m also looking for courses that will keep me and our Versta employees at the forefront of new knowledge and research techniques. (I didn’t learn R in graduate school, so yes, I took…

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Versta Research Tops Quirk’s “Best Of” List

Back in July we published our newsletter on How to Make Spectacular Infographics, and it became an instant favorite among our colleagues and customers.  Then in October, Quirk’s e-newsletter published a version of the article, and in just three months it became one of their most-viewed articles of 2014!  It is good to know that…

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Train Wreck Infographics

When we published our July 2014 newsletter on How to Make Spectacular Infographics, we spent some time looking for examples of poorly done infographics. Ultimately we decided to focus only on the positive “what-to-do” for infographics instead of the negative “what-not-to-do,” so we set those examples aside. Well, along comes the latest news magazine from…

How to Make Spectacular Infographics

How to Make Spectacular Infographics

This week, after nine months of intensive study and practice, we published our Summer 2014 Newsletter with a feature article on How to Make Spectacular Infographics.  It offers tips and tricks and some how-to insights.  It is based on a company-wide internal initiative launched last fall to develop an infographic summary of research findings for…

New Approaches for Faster (& Cheaper) Research

New Approaches for Faster (& Cheaper) Research

When customers talk about wanting faster and cheaper research, we’ve learned they’re not clamoring for all research to be faster and cheaper than ever before. Rather, they’re looking for new methods and niche solutions that fit specific problems they face.  The distinction is crucial, because the first pushes us to automate, routinize, outsource, and make…