Professional Social Network Analysis & Trend Prediction
- Identification of trendsetters, opinion leaders, and innovators in social networks
- Communication analysis for trend prediction, trend tracking, and risk assessment
- Market studies and target group analysis
- Competitor screening and business intelligence
Founded in 2007, galaxyadvisors develops state-of-the-art social network analysis software. Galaxadvisors' professional solutions allow business clients to analyze virtually any online community and Web communication in real-time and on-demand basis. Through its innovative approach galaxyadvisors leverages the wisdom of crowds, wisdom of experts, and wisdom of swarms for its customers. Based on ground-breaking algorithms developed at MIT and the University of Cologne, Germany, galaxyadvisors creates an innovative comprehensive search analysis engine.
November 4th, 2008
Election Night at Swiss Residence in Lexington, MA 
Organized in partnership with L'Hebdo (a Swiss weekly newspaper), the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, and the Forum
of 100 outstanding personalities from the French part of Switzerland, the election night at the newly decorated Swiss residence
in Lexington gathered around 100 people. Using a social networking tool analyzing blogs and sentiment on the web, Swiss
scientist Peter Gloor presented in realtime what people think about Obama and McCain in the blogosphere.
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November 2008
Internet Trend Research 
Wer wird US-Präsident? Wie entwickeln sich die Aktienkurse? Welcher Film gewinnt einen Oscar? Ein Schweizer Informatiker gibt die Antwort
- dank einer Software, mit der er die Kommunikationsströme im Internet analysiert.
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October 2008
Wisdom of Crowds 
Jeder möchte wissen, was die Zukunft bringt. "Wir wissen es", verspricht Peter Gloor. Denn seine Software für die Analyse
sozialer Netzwerke sagte schon politische Wahlen und Oscar-Preisträger voraus. Jetzt
ist der Unternehmer und Forscher, der sich seit 15 Jahren am MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Boston mit der
Visualisierung von unstrukturiertem Wissen befasst und jetzt auch an der Helsinki University of Technology unterrichtet, mit
seiner Jungfirma galaxyadvisors.com in den Technopark Aarau eingezogen. Read more...
September 3rd, 2008
22nd Swiss Venture Day, Zurich 
galaxyadvisors took part in an investor pitch at the Zurich stock exchange in Switzerland. The innovative business model and the
creative ideas received great attention. Galaxyadvisors discusses modalities of funding with several potential investors.
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April 2008
Is collaboration the future of invention? 
Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) are online communities of like-minded people working together to create innovations.
Author and scientist Peter Gloor originated the term. He describes it as a "cyberteam of self-motivated people with a collective
vision." Read more...
Spring 2008
Coolhunting through Swarm Creativity 
Was haben iPod, Facebook und YouTube gemeinsam? Sie sind innovativ, frisch und "cool". Jedes Unternehmen träumt davon solche Trends
vorherzusagen, bevor sie in der Breite wirksam werden. Genau das leistet jetzt eine MIT-Software zur Analyse sozialer Netzwerke. Ihr
Entwickler, Peter A. Gloor, zeigt, wie man damit Innovationen jagt. Read more...
February 7th, 2008
Web tool predicts election results and stock prices 
Tools such as Google Trends and Blogpulse track what people are talking or thinking about by recording the frequency
with which words are entered into search engines and appear on blog sites. Now Peter Gloor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology is going a step further, and using the web to make specific predictions. His software,
called Condor, has predicted the results of an Italian political party's internal election and successfully forecast
stock market fluctuations. Read more...
Kai Fischbach - Chief Scientist
Kai Fischbach is a Research Associate with the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne (Germany). He is also Associate Director of the Center for Applied Social Network Analysis (CASNA) in Cologne. His areas of expertise include the analysis of communication networks and the design of efficient information exchanges. He studied mathematics and social science at the University of Siegen (Germany). From 2001-2003 he was a Research Assistant at the Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management (Germany) where he received his Ph.D. In 2003 he was Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). He received scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German National Merit Foundation.
Peter A. Gloor - Chief Creative Officer and Founder
Peter Gloor has been working on visualizing knowledge and analyzing social networks for the last 15 years, leading to the development of Cybermap, a navigation tool for the Web, and to TeCFlow, a tool combining Web navigation with social network analysis. He founded galaxyadvisor's predecessorTeKFlo, Inc. in 2004. He is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He was Mercator Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne, and is a lecturer at Helsinki University of Technology. Until the end of 2002, Peter was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, leading its E-Business practice for Europe. Before that, he was a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Section Leader for Software Engineering at UBS.
Jonas S. Krauss - Chief Knowledge Officer
Jonas Krauss studied Information Systems at the University of Cologne with specialization in Information Management and Supply Chain Management, his diploma thesis covered Business Policy and Logistics. During a seminar at the Department of Information Systems and Information Management he developed an innovative method for the evaluation of communication networks and trend predictions in collaboration with Stefan Nann. Besides internships in the area of business consulting and airline IT management he visited the Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu for a semester abroad. Jonas Krauss also works as a research associate and doctoral student at the Chair of Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne. Subject of his research is social network analysis and the development of automated sentiment analysis for communication networks to derive trend predictions.
Stefan Nann - Chief Coolhunting Officer
Stefan Nann studied Information Systems at University of Cologne (Germany). He also works as a research associate for the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at University of Cologne. His areas of expertise include the development of analysis methods for efficient and automatic evaluation of online communication channels, particularly online discussion boards and blogs and the identification of new “cool” trends on the web. Stefan completed several internships for companies from different industries. He has experience in the consulting business and worked as a project manager for a German eBusiness agency. He studied at San Diego State University and gained working experience abroad by supporting Ravensburger F.X. Schmid USA, Inc. in a Supply Chain Management project. Stefan currently is a PhD student with the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at University of Cologne in the field of Social Network Analysis.
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