Patent Document ID: 20120158460
Application ID: 13408743
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computing devices, performs the steps of: receiving a universal data set comprising geographic data for a plurality of customers within a geographic area, the universal data set having an order and the universal data set aggregated at a household level; importing consumer panel data according to the order of the universal data set, the consumer panel data including a number of customer-reported transactions for a first subset of the plurality of customers and the consumer panel data aggregated at an individual customer level; importing retailer data according to the order of the universal data set, until a pre-determined threshold of a retailer for obtaining the retailer data from the retailer is achieved, the retailer data including customer data from the retailer for a second subset of the plurality of customers, wherein the second subset overlaps the first subset, and the retailer data aggregated at a retailer-provided level; and combining the consumer panel data and the retailer data according to the order of the universal data set at a normalized level of aggregation, thereby providing a data set representative of the first subset of the plurality of customers and the second subset of the plurality of customers.