So, we decided to send out a fall survey to all the charter schools to gauge interest in a few projects that are being considered. I helped write the surveys awhile ago, and now we are approaching the deadline. At first, the results I was given to analyze were only in Excel. Normally I'm a fan of Excel, but for this particular purpose it was pretty overwhelming. Some of the surveys were done on surveymonkey.com, so I went there to see what I could do with them. It is awesome! It will analyze them for you and you can download the results into a variety of formats. I love it! Unfortunately, about 50 of the surveys were done by hand and mailed in. I started putting them into Excel, but then someone at the office suggested that we just input them ourselves into surveymonkey so that it will tally up all the results for us. I put in about 15 of them today and it is going much faster.
My other task right now is kind of boring, but necessary. The database we have is getting clogged up with repetitive data. We're getting information from different sources, but some of it is stuff we already have. I have to go through and clean out the duplicated columns. That would be simple, but sometimes the data doesn't match, so I have to double check them all. It is much more tempting to work on surveys than to sift through data. I guess it is part of doing research though. Sigh.
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