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Exporting Survs’s data just got better

March 12th, 2009 by Miguel Arroz in Features, News

All the data that you obtain by deploying your surveys is yours, not ours. With that in mind, we built data exporting features in Survs since day one. This way you can keep a copy of your data or import it to any other software application.

However, it was not enough. You wanted to analyze the data you got from Survs in statistical software packages, like SPSS and others. We’ve listened to your feedback and made some dramatic improvements to Survs data exporting features:

  • Individual responses can now be exported in textual or numerical formats. Numerical is just what you need to import and crunch your data using some of the powerful statistical apps on the market. And yes, we support numerical data in Excel or CSV file formats, so you don’t need to worry about getting tied to a specific vendor.
  • We’ve tweaked the column headers to make it easier to use your files with other applications. Single row headers that are more third-party-friendly and even automatically generated short labels to be used as variable names, we got it all.
  • Also, the channel name is now part of the exported data too.

Keeping our users’ data as open and interoperable as possible is an essential goal for us, and this is a very important step in that direction.

One response to “Exporting Survs’s data just got better”

Tom says:

May 29th, 2009 at 8:46 pm

I think it is harder to code ability to export as XLS, than export as PDF. (a PDF just like the webpage, with those nice graphics)

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