What Protobi is ... and isn't
Protobi is a tool to see, explore and share survey data.
Protobi is designed for...
- Rectangular data files typical of surveys
- In CSV or SPSS format
- Rows for respondents, customer, patients, ...
- Columns for each question or attribute
- <30,000 rows (possibly more)
- <1000+ columns (possibly more)
- Variable labels and/or value formats
- Complex associations:
- Check-all-that-apply
- Sum-to-100
- Rate the following/li>
- Coding open ended verbatims
- Lightweight and advanced recoding
- Seeing histograms and crosstabs
- Finding 'aha' moments
- Finding outliers
- Sharing with colleagues and clients
- Short timelines (hours/days
- Trim budgets
- Savvy clients
Not designed for...
- Heavy data transformation and ETL
- PII, PCI, HIPAA or highly confidential data
- MP3, JPG, Geospatial mapping, Sonar data, ...
- Estimating stats model parameters
- Time series, ARIMA forecasting, projections, ...
- Unstructured text mining
- Advanced or highly customized visualizations
- Customized dashboards just so for the CFO
Not (yet) for...
- Relational data beyong single tables
- Tables with millions of records