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Consumer Science -The Important Stats Basics, 3rd June 2025
Online training
June 3, 2025
Virtual option available
The Important Basics – Are my products differentiated in liking by my target consumers? Can I identify product attributes that impact liking? Either or both parts of the live session can be attended.
Multivariate Statistics - Mapping Products and Visualising Relationships Between Many Variables, 5th June 2025
Online training
June 5, 2025
Virtual option available
Multivariate Statistics for Sensory and Consumer data - Mapping Products and Visualising Relationships Between Many Variables Either or both parts of the live session can be attended.
Applications of Experimental Design (DOE) in Consumer Research - Case studies - 11 June 2025
Online
June 11, 2025
Virtual option available
Case Studies illustrating product insights and optimisation Experimental Design methods are now widely used to optimise manufacturing processes and have an important role in product development.
Analysis of consumer data - C01 - Basic stats refresher
Remote training
Virtual option available
This course is a pre-recorded session and is a refresher for analysis of consumer research data
Analysis of consumer data - C02 - Considerations when planning your study
Remote training
Virtual option available
This course is a pre-recorded session and is a refresher for the Statistical analysis of consumer data course series.
Analysis of consumer data - C1 - Liking scale data - are my products liked differently? (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Comparing data distributions, are mean scores detected as different? This course is an on demand version, not a live session. Details of the live session are on the website under 'Public courses'
Hands on Sensory Statistics using XLSTAT - 30th Sept and 2nd, 7th & 9th Oct 2025 @ 9:30 (GMT)
Remote training
September 30, 2025
Virtual option available
This course takes place over 4 half days (AM). Each module is 3.5 hours and made up of a mix of talks and practical workshop exercises with solutions and interpretation of output.
Analysis of consumer data - C2 - Key drivers analysis & simple modelling - what product attributes most impact consumer acceptance? (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Measuring and modelling relationships between variables. This course is not a live session, but an on demand recording with workshops and data for you to download
Analysis of consumer data - C3 - Mapping products and visualising relationships between many variables using maps (PCA) (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Principal components analysis for visualising product differences over many variables. This course is not a live session, it is a recorded on demand session, with course materials to download
Analysis of consumer data - C4 - Who wants what? Clustering consumers using their product liking data (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Data requirements and pre-processing. The two main techniques, Hierarchical Clustering (AHC) and K-Means Clustering explained and compared. This course is not a live session - it is on demand
Analysis of consumer data - C5 - Improving & understanding your cluster solution to make better decisions (On demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Data quality checking for non discriminators, order effects, identifying outliers and non conformers, internal preference mapping. This course is an on demand version, not a live session.
Analysis of consumer data - C6 - Who likes what? Demographic segmentation of product acceptability (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Do different demographics like different products? Are my liking clusters defined by demographics? On demand version!
Analysis of consumer data - C7 - Analysing "Just About Right" (JAR) scales for product optimisation (On demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Do my products differ by JAR scale? Do these diagnostics impact liking? Watch our on demand training and join in with the workshops in your own time
Analysis of consumer data - Module C8 - Using categorical variables to drive insights using correspondence analysis (CA) mapping (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
How the technique works, interpretation of maps etc Watch our on demand training and join in with the workshops in your own time
Stats Fundamentals for Product Development - F01 - Data Visualisations and Summary Statistics using JMP
Remote training
November 5, 2025
Virtual option available
All our training includes hands on workshops in JMP with solutions and interpretation of results. Each module is approximately 2 hours in length.
Stats Fundamentals for Product Development - F02 - Estimating with Confidence using JMP
Remote training
November 6, 2025
Virtual option available
All our training includes hands on workshops in JMP with solutions and interpretation of results. Each module is approximately 2 hours in length.
Stats Fundamentals for Product Development - F03 - Evidence-Based Decisions - Hypothesis Testing Essentials using JMP
Remote training
November 10, 2025
Virtual option available
All our training includes hands on workshops in JMP with solutions and interpretation of results. Each module is approximately 2 hours in length.
Stats Fundamentals for Product Development - F04 - Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) using JMP
Remote training
November 11, 2025
Virtual option available
All our training includes hands on workshops in JMP with solutions and interpretation of results. Each module is approximately 2 hours in length.
Stats Fundamentals for Product Development - F05 - Modelling Relationships with JMP: Correlation and Regression Essentials
Remote training
November 12, 2025
Virtual option available
All our training includes hands on workshops in JMP with solutions and interpretation of results. Each module is approximately 2 hours in length.
Analysis of consumer data - C9 - Using "Check All That Apply" (CATA) scales to understand consumer product choices (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Which CATA questions discriminate between sample? Visualising product difference in the CATA space using correspondence analysis.
Analysis of consumer data - C10 - Other scales, comparing products using "Rate All That Apply" (RATA), ranking and proportion data (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Comparing product performance using percentage measures and Rate all that apply (RATA). Watch the video in our on demand training and join in with the workshops in your own time.
Analysis of consumer data - C12 - Further mapping methods, combining data from different sources on the same products (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
MFA, GPA and STATIS. Applications to measuring brand effects and analysis of napping data.
Analysis of consumer data - C13 - Predicting product performance from existing data using machine learning methods - Partial Least Squares (PLS) modelling (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Technique to build models to predict one block of correlated data from another. Applications covered include models to predict liking (from sensory/analytic data) or to predict sensory from data.
Analysis of consumer data - C14 - Combining data sets to visualise the link between product characteristics & preferences - External preference mapping (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
A graphical technique to visualise how liking (by individual consumer or on average) varies over a product space and to thus predict “sweet spots” in the sensory space.
Analysis of consumer data - C15 - Looking at product differences using "Rapid" consumer methods: free sorting tasks (On Demand)
Remote training
Virtual option available
Design of studies, number of samples/number of assessors, analysis using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. Hierarchical sorting to gain more insights.
From Texts to Trends - Analysis of Text Data
Online
Virtual option available
On demand training webinar to learn useful ways to quickly and easily summarise visualise and report text data, using the Qi TextVisualiseR app (course price includes 6 month access to software).
Conjoint Analysis using XLSTAT - access to recording of live session
Remote training
Virtual option available
This short course delivered online will help sensory and consumer scientists to understand how statistical techniques will improve the efficiency and outcomes of their choice experiments.