I’m embarrassed to say that I think I’ve been reading correspondence brand maps wrong for most of my career.
According to Tim Bock, founder of DisplayR, this is how you read a traditional brand map:
- Drawing a line from the brand of interest to the origin.
- Drawing a line from the attribute of interest to the origin.
- Calculating the angle of the line.
- Computing the cosine of the angle.
- Measuring the distance of the first line.
- Measuring the distance of the second line.
- Multiplying together the cosine of the angle with the two distances.
I stopped at the mention of cosine.
Instead they recommend Moonplots.
This is much more intuitive.
- The closer to the middle, the less differentiated it is.
- The closer to an attribute, the strong the association
- And the larger the font of the attribute, the more important the attribute is to the brand landscape.
Anything that makes data more intuitive is a win.
So check out more on Moonplots and the original DisplayR article here.