subject: Data Collection Services Useful, And Reliable Services [print this page] Shared spreadsheets, to collect information instead of a day-to-day activity.
Old-fashioned the standard methods for the collection of data points of pain:
Multiple sources of data validation, data collected from a lot of time and energy with many typographical errors and correct, to be valid and the data was bound to offer.
Various sizes - the data in different formats (XLS, CSV, RSS, web links, documents, email, etc.), making it difficult to make them put together.
Information data - data, information once it is broken down and analyzed and made sense.
Introduction to the online form
Online forms for data collection to a new purpose. Many free services providers in a more organized approach to data collection came out with a form. The free service limits the widespread use of this web-form, but a few reindeer really opened the floodgates. Found a complete system of data collection. Most of these services also offer analysis and graphs of your data in the appropriate rows and columns. The industry has changed a lot.
Various forms of online access
Online forms are useful in both business and education.
Business:
Human Resources staff to gather information
Regularly updated sales data for the field workers
Collect customer feedback
Financial data collected
Update the list of management
Customer Service and Support Requests
Education:
Market research and analysis to study
Student / Teacher Assessment
Daily attendance
The advantage of online forms
Part of the yield on the web forms on our table are:
Save time and money if you move from paper to web forms
E - mailing to remove and easy to people who have not updated their data to send information
Valid, direct responses to the prevention and correction of data errors back that does not require cleaning - typos, data validation or better accuracy.
Timeliness of results data is available immediately and the results can be tracked and analyzed while data collection is ongoing.
Reminder sent to non-responders in the rates can increase dramatically.
Access - web access and easy distribution via email. Web survey form or other mobile device with Internet access can be accessed from the computer.
Water industry as a market is dependent on the paper. From the extract of data from the industry for their "Just in Case" to fill in data storage and retrieval systems to collect. Industry to much data to collect, but also impractical to expect the possibility of log records that the box to answer "just in time" will ensure it is not! Decision depends on the data and important decisions depending on the data at hand.
Lack of water in the west, dry in the east, is flooding everywhere, and the demand keeps growing to do. Headlines need to manage the water. Aging infrastructure and little or no industrial automatic control system retrofit is characterized by the budget. Water and waste water infrastructure upgrades in the United States current estimated billion estimate.
The key to making good decisions is readily available, useful and reliable data.
