Hi Guys, Have you ever considered any OCR based survey? OCR based survey may avoid technical and financial constraints (Popular with all major examinations conducted in India). Sample here ( http://chemmunish.com/answer%20key%20+2%20Full%20Physical.JPG). It require one time investment on a good OCR machine (really not very expensive and less error-prone). If the machine is a constraint, little programming with a fast scanner will do the job.
However, the success with OCR based survey really depends on the designing of the survey. Regards Sailendra On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2013 10:13 AM, "Samuel Rajkumar" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Respectfully disagree, Nisha. > > > > There really is no problem with spreadsheets being used to analyze data. > But collecting data with paper forms and then typing it into the > spreadsheet is just very inefficient and error prone. > [...] > > Agreed. Our experience has been that most organisations are immediately > appreciative of the benefits of data collection based on smartphones. As > you note, Android smartphones are now cheap, and even with the one-time > sunk cost of purchasing the devices, our platform is usually cheaper than > paper-based methods, besides being less error-prone. SMS can be used if > there is a big sensitivity to price. > > Spreadsheets are also unstructured, and difficult to convert to API-based > access, which is needed for any generic analysis methods not customised to > a specific data format embodied in the spreadsheet. IMHO, this is the > biggest problem with the current data sets on data.gov.in > > Regards, > Gora > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Sailendra Prasanna Mishra Linkedin: http://in.linkedin.com/in/sailendraprasannamishra Twitter: https://twitter.com/sailendram Skype: Sailendra.prasannam "Few people in this world who make mistakes in right direction." -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
