All I Don’t Know About Surveys

I believe my survey experiment Survey Time illustrated later in this post and in Google’s Visualization of Survey Responses mainly pointed out how ignorant I am about the very complicated science of surveying from building the survey to the visualization of the results.  Thanks very much though to all the fine folks who responded, and I’m always open to suggestions through this survey or the traditional methods of commenting, Twittering, or emailing.  I also really appreciate Markus Gesmann’s post Feedback from vignette survey for giving me the idea and Michael Friendly’s http://datavis.ca/papers/casm/casm.pdf for helping me think through the visualization.  I have not had a chance to read, but

this appears to be the Bible of survey and non-quantitative visualization.  Also, I got a big kick out of this Advanced logo: a language for learning since at 7 seven years old the Logo turtle introduced me to programming and assured my destiny of a lifetime of geekdom.

Unfortunately, this visualization is not my most stunning or best work, but I wanted to make sure that I shared for anyone that might find it helpful or inspirational.   There are lots of ways to get Google Docs into R, but I choose the easiest and least elegant.  Google allows publishing to the web as csv.

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Then we can simply use the base read.csv file to access the results to get the following visualization of the survey.  If you want to see the full set of results, go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AieeEIaS0AOsdGpvbTltd0pLZGh1cjRjZnlaV3pVY1E.

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R code in Gist (click to download)  One comment recommended that I do not show the code in the post.  Please let me know if you agree or disagree.

Thanks again to everyone who responded and all my loyal readers.

Look Over My Shoulder with Hangout?

Inspired by the post More Office Hours in 2012 and the survey results, I thought I would offer office hours while blogging/playing in R.  If anyone is interested, please send me an email at kent.russell at timelyportfolio.com, or just look for me at Google Hangout.  I’ll do my first 1/18/2012 from 4:27 pm to 5:00 pm central.

 

follow up: got 3 participants in my Hangout experiment all through http://hangoutcanopy.com, but unfortunately nobody knew about R or my blog.  Maybe I should switch to an unlisted Hangout if that is possible.

Google’s Visualization of Survey Responses

As I try to develop the most beautiful and informative visualization of the survey responses Survey Time, I thought I should have a base case on which I could improve.  Fortunately, Google offers a visualization, which I think is actually pretty good.  Thanks to everyone who has responded.  Please respond (takes less than 1 minute) if you have not yet.

Survey Results (google vis)

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Survey Time

After I completed the vignette survey http://lamages.blogspot.com/2012/01/feedback-from-vignette-survey.html, I was amazed with the process, functionality, and potential R integration from Google Docs forms.  I just had to make one of my own. As I try to say in each post, I love comments, suggestions, and feedback.  Please let me know what you think.

Anyone who would like to see the results real-time, please see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AieeEIaS0AOsdGpvbTltd0pLZGh1cjRjZnlaV3pVY1E and Google’s visualization http://www.slideshare.net/timelyportfolio/survey-results-google-vis.