Get to know . . . Jérôme Sopoçko By Richard Collins Social 17th May 2023 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter What I do . . . I define the vision of where the Askia software range is going. I also fix bugs in the code I wrote 20 years ago. My proudest work achievement . . . Founding Askia with Patrick and making it a home for so long for so many of my colleagues. It does sound paternalistic, but I can live with that. My even more paternalistic achievement is to be the father of four boys – two of them I am not related to biologically…
Get to know . . . Michael Brennan By Richard Collins Social 20th March 2023 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter What I do . . . I’m one of the Support Engineers at Askia. I assist our clients with a variety of technical topics, including (but not limited to) survey script writing, survey design, fielding setup, software installations, data exports, data analysis, etc. I also assist Askia and our clients with technical training, database management, and server maintenance. I wear many hats. 🎩 My proudest work achievement . . . Due to a combination of luck, brute force, and experience, I’ve solved several “needle in a haystack” installation…
Get to know . . . Jordan Grindle By Richard Collins Social 2nd March 2023 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter What I do . . . Technical Support Specialist (AKA Professional Ticket Wrangler). My proudest work achievement . . . Single-handedly tackling a very challenging, multi-month consulting project. If I wasn’t working for Askia, I would be . . . Proselytizing the merits of Cthulhu (from the acclaimed H.P. Lovecraft short story ‘Call of Cthulhu’), making a passable politician. The best advice I ever received was . . . Use two thin coats to paint your Warhammer minis, instead of one thick coat. If I could time travel…
How can we help you? By Christine Caggia Knowledge base 3rd February 2021 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Here at Askia, we are proud to announce the launch of our brand new user web pages! We think you will enjoy this new, user-friendly area, designed with lots of fresh & easy-to-navigate information and articles. We have been busy both importing content that previously existed and also creating new content that we felt was missing. Much thought and effort has been put into tagging all the different pieces of content, so that it should be easier to find what you are looking for. The information is broadly divided…
Hot off the press! By Paul Nevin Knowledge base 18th April 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter This resource round up for survey authors, fieldwork managers and data scientists is broad; from leveraging our API to new survey controls to an updated Design! Connecting to Askiafield API with Postman If you want to extend the functionality of askiafield, you need to connect to our dedicated API. For this, we have detailed the entire authentication and connection process. All you’ll need is administrative access to your askiafield server, the actual API as well as an installation of Postman… and of course, the necessary step-by-step process in…
New KB article roundup By Paul Nevin Knowledge base 27th October 2017 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter This article aims to provide you with the best of our most recently published articles on our Help Centre, these range from AskiaDesign and AskiaSurf to AskiaWeb. Redirect out of an Askia survey and back again Sometimes it’s required to leave an Askia survey to take part in an external exercise and return to the survey to complete it. In such cases, it may be required to take parameters from the Askia survey to the external application or page. This article will show an example of these requirements using AskiaDesign. Check out…
Fresh articles from our knowledge base By Paul Nevin Knowledge base 6th April 2017 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Our tech support team has been hard at work lately on providing you with many new articles designed to help you better benefit from our software suite: could it be survey design, fieldwork management or data analysis. Here are some of the most noteworthy articles from our help centre: Randomise or rotate a code list with groups & headers It’s often required to show a code list with several group headers and responses within these groups. In most cases it’s necessary to randomise the responses within the groups and…
New from the vault By Paul Nevin Knowledge base 21st November 2016 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter If like us, you’ve been busy spending your time working (building surveys, helping clients, upgrading software, reading logs, …), you may not have had a chance to keep up with the latest tips & tricks from our Help Centre. Feel free to have a flick through our latest picks: Design & Analyse FAQs Your first steps with Askia’s range of software are now even smoother! The askiadesign & askiaanalyse FAQs will help cover your needs when start building your first questionnaire or analysing your first survey results. Access the Design FAQ and/or…
Latest resources for our users By Paul Nevin Knowledge base 5th September 2016 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Even though we’ve been on holidays, some of our dedicated support staff have been working hard to provide you with some great resources for your upcoming surveys: help articles, new survey controls and more! Here’s an overview of all the new goodies you’ll be able to find on our help centre: Universe settings This short article covers all the basics on Universes, an often misunderstood feature of askiaanalyse. It’s indeed often ambiguously connected to another Filters / Sub-populations. The article in detail how Universes do not change the counts but change the percentages…
Knowledge base updates By Paul Nevin Knowledge base 6th January 2016 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Below a quick introduction to the latest articles added to our Knowledge base by our tech support team. Significance Testing for Overlapping & Independent Samples This article gives more information on the situations in which overlapping samples can be sig tested in askiaanalyse. This KB article explains the correct tests to use when testing for significance in independent or overlapping samples. If you are sig testing columns and it’s the case that a respondent belongs to more than one column (e.g. in a multi-coded question or loop summary table) then the…
