[support] Data collection and analysis

[Anoop John]

If you are a planning to do custom programming on your own then I think
that custom database tables and custom queries and views integration would
be the way to go.

If you are not planning to do custom programming on your own then content
types, node references, views and views export should work for you.

I am assuming that you are going to do the analysis outside of the system
in say libreoffice spreadsheets.

Thanks

*Anoop John*
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Chris Miller <cjm at tryx.org> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm working on a data collection / analysis application.  I need some
> advice.
>
> I'm pretty sure I can use normal Drupal forms to collect the data, but
> when it comes to analyzing, I'm not sure that normal forms is the way to
> go.  I have NO idea how that data would be structured in the database.
>
> So, am I better off figuring out how:
>
>    1. to explore the data as stored by Drupal
>    2. to make Drupal store the data in the form I like
>
> It will not be simply statistics; the questions will be part of what is
> collected; questions will be posed by participants and answers given and we
> need to make sense of all of it.  We will need to record who poses which
> questions, and we are interested in comparing profiles of both posed
> questions and answers, so you can see it can't be reduced to summary math
> like averages and standard deviations.
>
> How should I approach this?
>
> Chris.
>
> 916.799.9461
>
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