Begin by going to "My projects" and pressing on +New project…
Upload survey data
+New project will take you to the page below. Drop your data file onto the tile, or click the dotted box to upload a file (CSV or SPSS).
Schedule a session
Press "Schedule a session" to be view the project support calendar. Choose a date and time for an initial work session.
Select version
New to Protobi? Select an intro project, and let us show you what's possible. You'll get temporary access to a full interactive online view of your entire survey with admin access. We'll help you get setup and you can schedule an intro design work session.
One project space for a full length survey. An expert project will get you the software and project support. All visualization and data prep capabilities. You get an interactive online view of your entire survey with admin access to edit and share with colleagues.
A professional project will include full service for new and continuing clients. We set you up with the initial design, online design review/training sessions, and some data processing.
You get an interactive online view of your entire survey with admin access to edit and share with colleagues.
Authorize payment
Enter billing details to request an invoice.
Project settings
After you press "Request invoice", you will see the project settings to-do page with the new project info.
Overview
Press the overview tab. Here you can edit project details and add a logo and splash image.
Permissions
Grant your client and colleagues access to the project on the permissions tab.
Upload supporting documents
In the data tab you can add supporting documents such as the survey questionnaire by pressing +New document.
Upload the file into the document table:
Open your project
Press the "Open" tab in project settings to see an initial view of your survey data.
Protobi creates an initial view where every column in your data appears as an interactive chart.
Create an initial design
The next step is to neatly organize what may be many hundreds or thousands of data columns into higher level groups and tweak how they appear.
Start by running Autogroup to organize your data into sections.
Make design tweaks so each appears in a form suitable for your analysis:
- Compact checkboxes and ratings into tidy collections
- Extract common text into parent groups
- Translate text verbatims
- Bin numeric values into ranges
- Recode text verbatims
- Set filters to reflect skip patterns
- Change chart types
- Zero fill missing values
- Edit value formats
Learn more in our Basic setup tutorial.
Video tutorial
Transcript
Create a new Protobi project. Begin by clicking on "New Project" and select a CSV or SPSS file. For this example, we'll use the political survey from the Pew Research Center.
Your project is now created, press "open" to see an initial, interactive view of all your data.
Data is automatically grouped into a tree on the left under the section "Fields". The toolbar on the top shows our current sample size, as well as many other capabilities.
Select the section, "Fields" so that it is highlighted blue, and from the Advanced menu select "Autogroup".
We can create a new tab by selecting the "+" button. We can then drag elements from the tree into the new tab.
Here, we'll drag questions 1-16 into the new tab. We see questions with similar titles are grouped together. For instance q7a, q7b, q7c and q7d are grouped together because they share the prefix "q7".
Since text itself is not a variable, survey packages often cram it into variable labels. We can press the Advanced menu and select "Extract common text". The common text has been pulled out, leaving just the variable text behind. We can display q7 more concisely, compacting it to "Very favorable", or a top 2 box rating of "Very favorable, and Mostly favorable".
Again, we can remove the common text, and compact both questions 15 and 16 to "yes".
We can head back up to the toolbar, and toggle the Format button to see the underlying raw, unformatted values. We can also toggle the %# button to view data as percentages or in counts.
Create instant crosstabs by dragging q1 onto q7, shading highlights significant difference. To uncross, drag q1 out of q7.
We can also change an element's chart type, from the element's context menu select "Chart Type..." and choose Venn Diagram.
We can also change this chart into a column chart. Elements are expandable, select the element so that it is highlighted blue, and drag the resize handle to your desired width and height. Change q7 back into a core element, by once again going to the element's context menu, selecting "Chart Type..." and choose Standard.
See tutorials on organizing data and Protobi chart types to begin further customizing your survey.