Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

Dnia środa 23. lipca 2008 17:14, Jean-François Veillette napisał:

Le 08-07-22 à 21:25, Jakub Narebski a écrit :

quoted

First there is a question about the form of survey. Should we use web
based survey, as the survey before (http://www.survey.net.nz), sending
emails with link to this survey, or perhaps do email based survey,
with email Reply-To: address put for this survey alone?  Should we use
the same web survey service as before (found by Paolo Ciarrocchi for
first, 2006 survey, and used also for 2007 survey), or is there one
better (it would better be free, and without limitations on the number
of responses; in 2006 there were around 117 responses, in 2007 there
were 683 individual responses).

Consider
http://www.survs.com
It is still in beta but already years ahead of the proposed solution.
I don't know about the specific of the beta (cost, availability,  
etc.) but I had a live presentation of the product and it is an  
amazingly great product !

It certainly _looks_ nice, but it lacks one very important feature
(or at least I was not able to find it): the ability to download *RAW*
data to analyse it off-line using more advanced tools (like for
example Perl script to clean-up responses; spreadsheet like Excel or
Gnumeric, or some statictics tool like R to analyze data, for example
do a correlation between responses to different questions).

http://www.survey.net.nz allows to download raw data in modified
CSV format (modified as it allows for line continuation).  See for
example raw data for Git User's Survey 2007 results:
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=surveydata.csv

There is another nice thing that http://www.survey.net.nz is supposed
to have (but it doesn't unfortunately work; at least downloading
current layout of survey to tweak off-line doesn't/didn't work),
namely ability to create survey off-line using some specified text
format, and upload it, instead of creating it on-line (which might be
much work for large surveys).
 
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland