Category: Data & Insights

After the week the Obama administration has faced, depression seems like an unfortunate inevitability for the Democratic Party. Scandals aside, are Democrats actually more likely to be depressed because of their political affiliation?

Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided over …

Every month, over 30 million people complete SurveyMonkey surveys. Among these survey takers, there’s a substantial population who sign up for SurveyMonkey Contribute to take additional surveys. What’s SurveyMonkey Contribute and why do people sign up? It’s our member site …

When you’re a hard-working monkey on the Business Intelligence team here at SurveyMonkey, it means we concentrate on these three things: data, data, and more data! Thanks to modern technology, the cost of storing data has decreased while the speed of accessing …

When it comes to Internet business models with recurring revenue, both investors’ and entrepreneurs’ ears tend to perk up. A frequent topic at industry and business school events, many future leaders are eager to understand how companies using these particular …

The BBQ has been lit, the lemonade poured, and the ice cream scooped, which can only mean one thing: America’s birthday is upon us! That’s right, it’s almost time for the 4th of July.

Whether you’re planning a pool party with …

Last fall, as part of our first SurveyMonkey Hackathon, I worked on a data-mining project to try and evaluate whether or not there are algorithmic ways to distinguish good survey questions from bad ones. Specifically, I was looking to see …

Do you want to make your business better? One of the simplest ways to improve your business—and your sales—is to find out what your customers really think about your company. While it might be tough to hear about problems they …

Let’s say you want to ask 1,000 people that represent the US population a question – whether a particular brand of toothpaste will sell, or which car color they prefer, for example – so you go to a panel company …

A formal process for managing the end of an employee’s lifecycle—off-boarding—plays a major part in improving talent retention. Lars Schmidt, Director of Talent Acquisition at NPR, says you should be doing more than just collecting data. “The organizations that get …

You’ve probably never heard of Bronies, or if you have, it’s been in a news report about a weird group of men who share a strange addiction to an animated TV program targeted at young girls. The reality is both …