Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

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

quoted

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).

I created an account myself and gave it a try. You -can- export in
either an excel sheet or csv through: Surveys >  [name of survey]  >
Analyze > Export.

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

As said, the same is possible at the Survs thing, even line
continuations work I think. Below is an sample export of a quick
survey I created and filled in myself. Looks pretty parsable to me :).




"Git Survey 2008"
"Viewed",1
"Incomplete",0
"Complete",1

"Respondent Number","Date","Time","What country are you in?","What is
the language you prefer git to communicate with you?","How old are you
(in years)?","How did you hear about Git?","How are you doing?"
"","","","","","","",""
2,"Jul 24, 08","11:06:56","Netherlands","Dutch","19","News site or
magazine, Blog entry, IRC, Mailing list","Very well, thank you very
much. I was hoping you would ask that question as I was trying to tell
someone that this survs thing is quite nice, actually.
The only downside so far is that you cannot prepare a survey offline
and then upload it to the site.
I'm sure that won't be a problem though."

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).

Agreed, it would be nice to have something like this. Especially when
adding a bunch of options. It doesn't seem that Survs allows you to
create the Surveys offline, but if it doesn'tw ork at survey.net.nz
anyway...?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier