Tag: automation

What’s New in AskiaAnalyse 5.6

We have recently released an article in our Knowledge Base detailing all the exciting new features packed into AskiaAnalyse 5.6. This blog post is an accompaniment, promoting the release and summarising the most useful, everyday features it contains. Filtered Weighting Filtered weighting removes the need for manual intervention when implementing certain weighting schemes. We have a blog article on this handy new feature here. The article contains a video where I walk through an example that AskiaAnalyse could not handle previously. In summary, you’ll see these new options…

Introducing themeit

Guest Blog: Tim Brandwood, codeit I am delighted to announce the launch of our automated theme discovery tool, themeit. themeit harnesses the latest generative AI technology (think Chat GPT) to supercharge your verbatim coding process. How does it work? Once you’ve loaded some data into codeit, you can access the new themeit tool by clicking “analyze themes”. themeit will then auto analyze your data, extract a set of suggested themes and code as many of your verbatims as possible.  Once this is complete, you can view the results in a…

Analysing verbatims with generative AI

Guest Blog: Tim Brandwood, codeit As researchers, we understand the value of asking open-ended questions in our surveys. They help us get to the “why” that lies behind the closed questions you ask. It’s no use finding out that your customers are dissatisfied if you don’t also ask them why. The challenge with collecting this kind of free-text data is that it usually needs to be measured. For example, what are the top five most frequent reasons your customers are dissatisfied? How does that trend over time? And…

Open-ended questions – a guide

The Askia blog is called Open Ends and this name couldn’t be more pertinent for our latest blog article, which is all about the open-ended question. Here we summarise much of the knowledge that we have picked up from a couple of decades of providing survey software and working with insight professionals and their open-ended questions. When to use them; how to optimise them; and how to analyse the unstructured data that is collected. For many of our seasoned users this article will likely be seen as “teaching…

Delineate and Askia

Askia client Delineate has announced the first of several upcoming technology integrations with its new platform, Delineate Proximity™. Released in October, Delineate Proximity™ is an end-to-end Research Technology (ResTech) platform that connects brands with their consumers in real-time. The platform has now been integrated with Askia to further enable automation of the end-to-end survey data collection and delivery process, enabling clients to receive daily brand and campaign tracking and self-serve surveys. Commenting on the integration, Delineate CTO James Stewart explained: “The core of Delineate Proximity™ is curated survey…

DIY Research, Made To Last

The global pandemic has further accelerated the digitalization of market research, making its democratization a reality. Driven by new technologies and new consumer approaches, research strategies have fundamentally evolved. Today, market research in Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mode is more and more popular for strategic decision-making. This transformation is beneficial for all market players, beyond the obvious budget and time savings. Do-It-Yourself has become a leading research tool and for Askia this has been a great opportunity: our clients can build their platforms around our core technologies and utilize the…

Automation & Tracking Surveys

“You’re either the one who creates the automation or you’re getting automated” – Tom Preston-Werner “The central question of 2025 will be: What are people for in a world that does not need their labor, and where only a minority are needed to guide the ‘bot-based economy?” – Stowe Boyd With the words of GitHub co-founder and lead researcher at Gigaom echoing in my ears, I swiftly set about using Askia Analyse’s powerful new scripting functionality to add an exciting twist to the most common deliverable in market…

Hey! Succour

Slice & dice the market research cake

New software built around the needs of research practitioners can relieve the enormous pressure they’re under. More than that: it has the power to make their working lives at once easier, more stimulating and more rewarding. In fact, market researchers can now slice, dice and have their cake (and eat it!) Industry challenges and pressure on research professionals as individuals have been mounting over the last few years. Researchers are constantly being told to be smarter, quicker, more agile, more innovative and more accountable; to process, integrate and…

Analyse 5.5.2 – Jewels in the Crown (pt 2)

Analyse 5.5.2 – Jewels in the Crown (pt 2)

This is part 2 of a series of articles on automating tasks in Analyse. According to the new Askia tagline, you can now automate insights. The claim is bold and possibly premature. But for years now, we have been thinking of ways we could decrease the lapse between questionnaire design and the analysis. Of course producing insights is hard on a new topic but it shouldn’t be that difficult on a more targeted environment. If your survey is generic enough (say an ad test or package testing), you…

Askia – Wind of Change

Wind of change

Moving from “Software for surveys” to “Automating insight” A question that we often get asked at Askia is when did it all start? A simple enough question you would have thought – but the answer depends on whom you are talking to. I’d probably say 1996, when we changed our name to Askia. However Jérôme would argue back to 1994 when he first created a company called “Peter Holmes”.  Yes, Peter Holmes … but that is a different story. Well whoever is right, it was definitely in the…