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brinshannara) wrote2005-07-29 11:08 pm
brinshannara) wrote2005-07-29 11:08 pm
Entry tags:
SPSS: The Thrill of Data, the Agony of Data Entry
And so, with a million respondents, I have officially declared my survey a success.
Okay, so it's up over 200, not a million, but still. I'm letting it run until Sunday night, then closing it up. I'm pretty sure it'll drop in popularity as soon as it's off everyone's friendslists, so I'm thinking... 230-250 respondents, which is PRETTY DAMN AWESOME. I <3 the Internet.
That said, there's NO WAY I'm going to be able to put in all that data for my class, which ends in less than two weeks, so I'm probably going to use the first 75 for this class and come back and use ALL of it for my honours thesis (which will be based on this work I'm doing for this class) in a year's time. Or, I may do systematic sampling and use every third respondent or something. I'm not sure. I've started entering some data (just one person so far) and OMG, the agony of data entry! Seriously. It's painful. Yay!respondents, yay!data, boo!dataentry.
It's 2005. Surely they've come up with a way for data to magically be transferred from one format to another, from email to a database format. Right? Right?
Sigh.
Anyways, I just wanted you all to know that this is ALL I'm going to talk about for the next several days.
Well, and JB. Of course. ;)
Okay, so it's up over 200, not a million, but still. I'm letting it run until Sunday night, then closing it up. I'm pretty sure it'll drop in popularity as soon as it's off everyone's friendslists, so I'm thinking... 230-250 respondents, which is PRETTY DAMN AWESOME. I <3 the Internet.
That said, there's NO WAY I'm going to be able to put in all that data for my class, which ends in less than two weeks, so I'm probably going to use the first 75 for this class and come back and use ALL of it for my honours thesis (which will be based on this work I'm doing for this class) in a year's time. Or, I may do systematic sampling and use every third respondent or something. I'm not sure. I've started entering some data (just one person so far) and OMG, the agony of data entry! Seriously. It's painful. Yay!respondents, yay!data, boo!dataentry.
It's 2005. Surely they've come up with a way for data to magically be transferred from one format to another, from email to a database format. Right? Right?
Sigh.
Anyways, I just wanted you all to know that this is ALL I'm going to talk about for the next several days.
Well, and JB. Of course. ;)