Askia party at Esomar 2017! By Paul Nevin Social 30th August 2017 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter A quite substantial contingent from Askia will be attending the ESOMAR Congress on September 10-13 in Amsterdam. For those of you who plan to attend, we’ll be at booth #19 in the exhibition space, where we hope you’ll swing by to see us. The other bit of significant news is that, true to tradition, we’ll be hosting a party immediately following ESOMAR’s Welcome Reception. Details are as follows: When? Sunday, September 10th from 9:00 PM until late. Where? In De Waag, an intimate bar/restaurant about a 7-minute walk from the…
Welcome to the machine By Jérôme Sopoçko Lab 5th July 2017 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter The following is a transcript of a talk given by yours truly and Chris Davison from KPMG Nunwood at ASC’s One Day Conference on the Challenges of Automation in Survey Research on May, 11th 2017. Introduction We have entered the golden era of automation –in other word: make machines do things. At first it was repetitive and simple things – find duplicates in a sample list, copy that survey and substitute the word Coca-Cola by Pepsi and send the results to all the executives of the relevant company…
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…
AskiaField 5.4 is ready for you By Stephen Bronnec Askiafield 7th March 2017 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter We are thrilled to announce that Askia’s entire software suite is ready for deployment in version 5.4. Among the list of features of this major version, we want to highlight the very reason that made us switch to a new version track. Quota revamp 5.4 introduces a total revamp of the quota system. Among the main features are Quotas can now be set up on multi-coded questions and numeric questions. Minimum and maximum quota targets. Easy crossed-quotas. Quota definition, monitoring and quota breakdown by interviewing mode are now on…
Askia is back at Insight Show By Gaëlle Normand Business 27th February 2017 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter The Insight Show strikes back in 2017: new date – 8th & 9th March, new location – Olympia West, and a brand new event organisation. Askia couldn’t miss this opportunity to come back to this major event as an exhibitor once again. The timing couldn’t be better as we have a wealth of new developments to share with visitors. For starters, we’ll be showcasing our brand new stand layout, reflecting Askia’s new identity; we will also bring our uber-cool Engager for a refreshingly interactive experience on our seo…
askiavista 6.0.3.9 By Mamadou Sy Askiaanalysis 18th January 2017 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter As the askiavista user base keeps growing, vista Administrators have asked if we could provide broader and more flexible usage statistics. Well, as we start this new year, we’re delivering a brand new Activity monitoring with vastly improved monitoring capabilities. Available by default to askiavista Administrators, it will enable them to monitor: surveys, users, groups, companies, servers, errors, as well as the different actions and types of analyses that their end-users are running on the platform. Furthermore, for those who are administering multi-server askiavista instances, the ability to…
New in Askiaface for iOS By Paul Nevin Askiafield 22nd December 2016 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter We’re pleased to announce that we have released a major update to askiaface for iOS on the App Store; version 3.3.0 is jam-packed with exciting new features and many dead bugs: Askiafield 5.4 quota management With askiafield 5.4, we have implemented four new Quota keywords which will dramatically simplify the setting of your surveys when you want balanced or least filled quota. AvailableQuota: returns the indexes of the responses of the TargetQuestion still available (to do > 0) and sorted from the max to do to the min to…
Of Askia Scripts and Functions By Jérôme Sopoçko Askiadesign 12th December 2016 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Introduction: What are Askia Scripts for? Or should I say what are their function? AskiaScripts were designed to evaluate conditions within a survey – at first to branch the survey and then to set values to (often dummy) questions. They needed to be easy to write (and re-read!) and the user should know at creation time if the script was going to succeed or not. The needs to improve AskiaScripts came as our clients’ surveys became incredibly complex – and that we used our language to produce our…
Quota: sticking to the script By Jérôme Sopoçko Askiafield 7th December 2016 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Nobody likes quota. They have the off-putting echo of a well-wishing community reluctantly leaving Apartheid behind. If researchers mention quota, it’s because you did not hit the targets. If a financial director mentions them, it’s to tell you how you went over and blew the budget. You do not like quota – and us, programmers, well, it was never our favourite part of the job. But with askiafield 5.4, we have put that behind us and made quota sexy. We have rebuilt the quota interface and the quota…
Big Data with just one digit By Jérôme Sopoçko Lab 11th October 2016 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter I know some of you think I only attend conferences for the free food, the drinks and the social scene. They are right – no point in me denying. But in-between parties, I tend to heal my hang-overs in the semi-darkness of conferences. Coming back from the ASC and ESOMAR, there are a few new tendencies in the Autumn/Winter MRX fashion. Forgotten MROC, gamification, mobile research, Big Data – that’s so last year… it’s main stream, dude. These days the cool kids talk about Automation, Data fusion, Artificial Intelligence……
