From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Conducting end user surveys and analyze data (was: Org-mode to feed a database) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:37:31 +0100 Message-ID: <2014-12-31T11-24-01@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <87k31acov5.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> <99D74CD0-215E-463F-86BE-21BD99809341@agrarianresearch.org> Reply-To: Karl Voit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48227) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6GfE-0003XX-4E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:38:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6GfA-00057s-0F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:38:03 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6Gf9-00057A-QU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:37:59 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6Gf4-00022N-Of for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:37:54 +0100 Received: from friends.grml.info ([136.243.234.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:37:54 +0100 Received: from news1142 by friends.grml.info with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:37:54 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org * Vikas Rawal wrote: > > But there would be many interesting things one could do in an > emacs/org-based solution. My biggest worry is that it would > require continuous training of people coming in to enter data. I think you can differ between the data entry platform and the platform where you analyze the data. You do have to train people using Emacs/Org-mode as well. When I was a researcher, I used SurveyMonkey for my surveys. It's open source and web-based. You get the data in CSV files AFAIR. I also tested Google Drive (spreadsheet) forms which were very easy to set up. However, the person filling out the survey needs a Google Drive account. The results were exported in various formats AFAIR. So, choosing a well known interface type (web-based forms) for end-users and choosing a separate power-tool for analysis (R, Org-mode, ...) is not a bad idea IMHO. -- mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode: > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on github