Ep. 232 - Aji Ghose - How Sky is Using a Mix Methodological Approach to get a Complete View of the Customer, and How You Can Too

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My guest today is Aji Ghose, PhD in computational cognitive modeling, and is Head of Research and Data Science at Sky. Sky is a media and telecommunications conglomerate owned by Comcast and headquartered in London. Sky is Europe's largest media company and pay-TV broadcaster by revenue with 23 million subscribers and more than 31,000 employees as of 2019. Find Aji Online: Twitter: www.twitter.com/ai_modeller  Website: www.sky.com Find Jamin Online: Email: [email protected]  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil  Find Us Online:  Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch  Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp  Website: www.happymr.com  This Episode’s Sponsor: This episode is brought to you by HubUx. HubUx reduces project management costs by 90%. Think of HubUx as your personal AI project manager, taking care of all your recruitment and interview coordination needs in the background. The platform connects you with the right providers and sample based on your research and project needs. For more information, please visit HubUx.com. [00:00] On episode 232, I'm interviewing Aji Ghose, Head of Research and Data Scientist at Sky, but first a word from our sponsor.  [00:10] This episode is brought to you by HubUx.  HubUx is a productivity tool for qualitative research.  It creates a seamless workflow across your tools and team.  Originally, came up with the idea as I was listening to research professionals in both the quant and qual space complain about and articulate the pain, I guess more succinctly, around managing qualitative research.  The one big problem with qualitative is it’s synchronous in nature, and it requires 100% of the attention of the respondent. This creates a big barrier, and, I believe, a tremendous opportunity inside of the marketplace.  So what we do is we take the tools that you use; we integrate them into a work flow so that, ultimately, you enter in your project details, that is, who it is that you want to talk to, when you want to talk to them, whether it’s a focus group, in-person,