The Nielsen Comapny (us), LLC

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Nielsen Consumer LLC

Information Resources, Inc.

Bruce C Richardson

Martin Quinn

Shixiao Li

Michael R Smith

Scott J Thomas

Jeffrey S Long

Larry P Menke

Thomas M Cowan

Doreen Stahl

Madison R Smith

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for text extraction from a receipt image. An example non-transitory computer readable medium is disclosed comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least generate a baseline product hierarchy using product information, calculate categorical impact values for products in the baseline product hierarchy, calculate an average impact value for the baseline product hierarchy using the calculated categorical impact values, calculate a first weighting factor for respective ones of the products based on a comparison between the categorical impact values and the average impact value, calculate a second weighting factor associated with respective ones of the products in the baseline product hierarchy based on sales data, and generate final weighted categorical impact values based on (a) the first weighting factors, (b) the second weighting factors and (c) the categorical impact values corresponding to the respective ones of the products.

Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus for configurable segmentation of product assortments

Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to privatize consumer data are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a consumer data acquirer to collect original data corresponding to (a) confidential information associated with consumers and (b) behavior information associated with the consumers, and a data obfuscator. The data obfuscator is to determine a degree to which the original data is to be obfuscated and a type of obfuscation to be applied to the original data based on the original data, generate obfuscation adjustments of the original data based on the degree and the type, and generate an obfuscation model based on the obfuscation adjustments.

Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to privatize consumer data

Methods and apparatus are disclosed to predict new product performance metrics. An example disclosed method includes selecting a product hierarchy tree based on a distribution measure for a new product, identifying a segment location of the product hierarchy tree for the new product, retrieving a relationship matrix associated with the segment location of the product hierarchy tree, the relationship matrix comprising available product performance coefficients and attribute information, identifying a spatial location for the new product in the relationship matrix based on the attribute information, calculating, using a programmed processor, an impact parameter based on the spatial location within the relationship matrix, and calculating the performance metric for the new product based on the impact parameter and a channel sales value.

Methods and apparatus to predict new product performance metrics

A cable television distribution system in which the head end substitutes different channels for a plurality of separated geographic zones. The head end creates a plurality of channel spectrums and transmits the spectrums on distribution trunks such that a different spectrum may be present on each distribution trunk. The spectrums on the distribution trunks are connected to zones of the viewer community which have been selected for market research purposes on the basis of demographics. Product sales collection units are provided at stores throughout the community served by the cable television distribution to collect consumer purchase data for market research purposes.

Television distribution system for signal substitution

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Bruce C Richardson