QDA Panel Performance & Data Analytics

Get More From Your Sensory Data

Dragonfly SCI brings 35+ years of sensory and consumer research expertise to data analysis, panel performance, and experimental design.

Our goal is simple: maximize learning within your time and budget. We provide practical, cost-effective statistical analysis that turns sensory and consumer data into actionable decisions.

Standard & Advanced Data Analysis

Led by Heather Thomas, Chief, Data & Analytics, our team brings decades of experience in sensory data collection, analysis, and software development.

Heather began her career in Rose Marie Pangborn’s lab and joined Tragon Corporation in 1988, where she worked closely with the test kitchen and data collection teams before moving into data and analytics. She later helped advance the sensory data tools that became part of RedJade Sensory Solutions.

Our expertise includes:

  • QDA panel performance
  • Preference segmentation
  • Experimental design (DOE)
  • Choice-based modeling
  • Consumer-based descriptive analysis
  • Multivariate analysis
  • Integration of sensory, consumer, and analytical data

Experimental Design & Optimization

Well-designed experiments can reveal which variables, mixtures, and combinations have the greatest impact on product performance.

We work within your business and production constraints to design efficient experiments, optimize products across markets, and develop sensory specifications that are both meaningful and achievable.

QDA Panel Performance Reviews

Is your trained panel producing the quality data you need?

Our quarterly or annual panel performance reviews help you understand panel quality in the context of your products, methods, and objectives.

We identify opportunities to strengthen panel performance and provide practical feedback to moderators—helping your team consistently generate high-quality, reliable sensory data.

Connect the Data

The greatest insights often come from connecting multiple sources of information.

We can integrate sensory, consumer, and chemical/physical/analytical data to better understand what drives the consumer experience and where opportunities exist for product improvement.

Better analysis. Better learning. Better decisions.

Ask us for a quote.

Heather Thomas, Chief, Data & Analytics
hthomas@dragonflysci.com