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In the end, the glass of Barolo is desirable and taste’s nice, the process of growing the vines harvesting the grapes, pressing, fermenting and bottling them is a process which is taken for granted.

In terms of what happens in opinion research, the last couple of blogs have really been about fermentation and bottling; its all been about warehousing data. Little has been said about getting the data in or the process which we call Harvesting.

What are the Grapes?
While I am pressing (excu… Continue

Did you ever stop to think what’s really making survey data unique…? I talk with database people often, some of them work on enormous ultra important data-warehousing systems for banks. They pick on me, they say:

“survey data is simple, you should try building an analysis database from our customer records…my life is hell”

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Have you ever had the uncomfortable task of assembling an expense report? You really want a number, but to get to that number you are trawling through paper receipts, bank statements, line items on phone bills and so on. All to arrive at what you deem to be the answer.. 1 number that you can call accurate.

When analysing markets or business performance, analysts and researchers are faced with this kind of task all the time. Forced into a position to be able to give a certain figure for whatever… Continue

In an unusual turn of events I have now submitted 4 consecutive blog posts that are all technical.. how geeky.

However my latest post follows on from a question that came from previous post about analysing Excel data using SPSS's Reporter tool, specifically Multiple response excel data. The walk through of how to do this can be found here:

http://www.surveyxtreme.com/?p=74

Enjoy!

I wrote a new post which explores the new features of SPSS Reporter 5.5 here:
http://www.surveyxtreme.com/?p=47