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We’ve been working hard to have all the most common transformations of data available in a single easy-to-use menu. When you select a variable (or…

Q’s now got a great feature for automatically categorizing geographic data. It is run by selecting a variable and then Automate > Browse Online Library…

A common thing to do with data analysis is to categorize (i.e., band) some numeric data. Q now fully automates this via Automate > Browse Online…

Sometimes you have some missing data and you want to work out what people would have said. Maybe it’s a political poll and they said…

All the common calculations that you may want to do on a table can now be done using menus. For example, let’s say I wanted…

Q version 5.13.1 now supports “smart” sorting of tables, where it leaves SUM, NET, Other, and None responses at the bottom. For example, when you…

Q5.12 or later features improvements to how PowerPoint files are updated and created. It’s a much faster and more reliable way of working. You can…

We’ve recently made improvements to how Q creates and updates PowerPoint files. Until now most Q users export to an open PowerPoint file, adding or…

In this post I am going to walk through the steps of fitting a structural equation model (SEM) in Q. The post assumes that you…

This title could have also been “Help, my Pick Any shows all 100%!” because this issue comes up for fairly frequently for Q users. Pick…

In our inaugural Channel Q episode, we wanted to cover questions submitted by our users on Brand Tracking. Due to time, we covered these questions…

It can often be difficult and time-consuming to organize raw text data into meaningful insights. Manually coding even a single text question can take several…

Categorizing text data can be a time-consuming and expensive activity.  In cases where time is short and budgets low, using automatic categorization of text data…

In a standard choice experiment, respondents are presented with alternatives which have a common set of attributes. Alternative-specific designs relax this requirement and are designed to…

An area chart is based on a line chart, but with the area between the line and the x-axis shaded or colored to illustrate volume.…

Determining the highest rated item within a set of questions involves creating a variable that examines the responses of each respondent, and identifies the question…

  Creating a table of ranks from a crosstab is a simple process in Q. All it requires is a little snippet of R code.…

If you have a license for Displayr’s desktop sister, Q, you may sometimes wish to add some things to your Displayr document from within Q.…

You can use R in Q to create bespoke tables and do flexible data manipulations. In doing so, you end up with tables within R…

One of the standout features of Q is its ability to automatically group variables into questions and identify the question type. This works best when…

After running a market segmentation, one problem many researchers commonly face is how to go about assigning respondents in subsequent surveys to the existing s...

In market research, you may end up with a data file that contains duplicate records. This post will show you how to identify and remove duplicates in your surve...

Sometimes researchers don’t have a time-date variable, but rather, just an indication of the period in a categorical variable. This can be problematic if ther...

Q contains several useful built-in mathematical functions that make it easy to do calculations on your existing data without having to write JavaScript, Excel formulas…