Making a web survey form

Richy

The situation is, I have a lot of data generated from an experiment I ran, and I need a qualitative evaluation of it. For each data sample (there are about 800 samples), I will have a 1-to-5 ranking of how good it is. I want to have people go over it and assign this ranking for each sample depending to reflect how good they feel it is. I want as many people as possible to do this.

So I need to make a website survey form. People can get on the website, fill in their evaluation of the data, and submit it. I will receive the 1-to-5 ranking of each of the 800 data samples, anonymously if possible (if not, I can just delete personal information when I get it). I want lots of evaluators, so I want the minimum amount of work on my side – basically get an ordered set of values I can just copy into a column in Excel, then have automated functions to display the average statistics.

Ideally I want people to only fill in the form once; having the same person make the evaluation several times would skew the data. But I don’t need to enforce that policy – honestly, I don’t imagine anyone going over 800 data samples twice just for the heck of it.

Anyway, right now the issue is that I need to make a website survey form that people can fill in, and then submit me the info at the press of a button, and I would get the data from the form formatted properly for copy-pasting into Excel. Any suggestions on how to do that? Web form tutorials or ready-to-use templates?

Thanks in advance.

BoGs

Well ... since you want online I am guessing you have web hosting. If not let me know I can help you with that for as little or as much web hosting as you want.

There are two survey programs that I know of but never used:
http://www.limesurvey.org/ and http://www.askpeople.co.uk/

They are both php and my guess is mysql - and both FREE(if you host it)!

UltimaGecko

Google Docs has a relatively easy means of creating forms/surveys (just, New->Form). It can be embedded into any website (More Actions->Embed for the HTML). That might be a bit of a pain with 800 points of data, but the basic form is setup in an excel-style spreadsheet, so there'd probably be some way to put them in faster. As far as I know it's anonymous (the closest you can get to taking a name or info is asking for a name and making it a mandatory question on the form).

Then again, people probably won't spontaneously rate 800 things, either.