Downloading data for additional analysis
Whether or not you use the application’s available display options, it is quite likely that you will want to subject the data, including any open ended responses, to additional analyses. read more »
So now you have all your data collected and safely ensconced in the SurveyMonkey or other online survey database. There are several ways to proceed from this point, including simple chart displays generated from the application and downloading the data for more sophisticated analyses. read more »
The ease of basic data display and analysis is one of the reason I love online surveys. The reason for this ease is what’s behind the survey. The bottom line: survey answers go directly into a database. You must still, of course, design items that will produce data answering your critical questions – that kind of design task is just as difficult in an online or other computer-based survey as it is for hard copy surveys. But, if you design your questions well, you will be able to use the survey application to create data displays that make sense and allow visual analysis of data, as well as conducting basic descriptive statistical analysis directly in most survey applications. read more »
For those of us who have licked hundreds of stamps to place on envelopes that send our little surveys out into the world, wondering whether our investment is in vain, online surveys seem almost too easy. After all, aren’t a sore tongue and paper cuts from survey folding rites of passage in social research? Well, maybe not, any longer . . . read more »
We’ve discussed using Twitter to capture audience response; for many of us, trying to keep up with tweets and also stay on topic sounds pretty intimidating. Fortunately, some techie types have found ways to make response surveying during meetings a lot simpler. Costs and functionality of these tools vary. read more »
After a comment on the use of cell phones to offer quick surveys during meetings or conferences, a question was asked about how such a survey could be conducted.
I will leave it to the original commenter to tell how he sets up his own surveys, but I am also copying the following article from the Swift Media Services website at http://imswift.com (The site owner has also initiated a newsletter called Mobilize Your Events. The first issue focuses on presenting at conferences and using Twitter to facilitate interaction. The newsletter can be found at http://imswift.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/mobilize-events_fall095.pdf )
Twitter offers new ways of engaging audiences in presentations.
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I tend to think of laying out a survey in terms of geography, cartography, and perhaps a bit of MapQuest thrown in. Many of these considerations are the same regardless of the modality in which the survey is presented. For instance, it is always important to begin with simpler and less potentially reactive questions, slowly building to those that may require more thought or perhaps might have potential to cause some agita in respondents. read more »