Welcome and thank you for selecting our platform for modeling and analyzing your Surveys. We are pretty sure that you will achieve a great productivity in all your surveys critical processes such as data capture, quality control and data analysis. You’ll also surely get a substantial reduction of time and costs. If you have any problem or question that exceeds the scope of this information please contact us at: rotatorsurvey.com, via email: support@rotatorsurvey.com or via skype at: rotator_support.
“RotatorSurvey” is an user-friendly software designed for modeling, capture and analysis of critical information that needs to be gathered from surveys in the field, surveys can be either self-applied or applied trough interviewers. Rotator supports all forms of data capture including Paper (PAPI), phone interviews (CATI), kiosks, mobile devices (CAPI), and online questionnaires (CAWI). Rotator was designed with the expert researcher needs in mind, but at the same time it guides the beginners by the hand through a step-by-step user friendly graphical interface. Rotator is useful when you need to enhance the productivity of a research team, and also when you need to produce a very high quality data output. Rotator is composed by several integrated applications that work synergistically, these components are: “Rotator Surveys Modeler”®, “Rotator DataEntry”®, “Rotator Phone Interview”®, “Rotator Mobile Interview”®, “Rotator Classifier”®
Rotator Survey Modeler (“The Modeler”) is the base component of the system, it allows you to create and design (to model) a typical quantitative research that uses a survey as a data collection tool, allowing the creation of questionnaires to be applied in the field, using paper, phone interviews, mobile devices or the Web. The modeler creates a hyper cubic (OLAP) proprietary Data Base that provides the base of all system applications. The next component is called “Rotator OLAP Analyzer” (“The Analyzer”), this a tool for data analysis and data discovery which is fully integrated to the “Modeler”. The analyzer supports the basic descriptive statistics, which includes frequencies in all forms. If a more sophisticated analysis is required, the data can be easily exported to SPSS or to Microsoft Excel
Most of the processes in Rotator are automatic and very user-friendly; it does not demand support from MIS personnel other than the daily file backups. Thus the dependency on third parties is significantly reduced and the return of the investment of the software is maximized. The software has been designed to address a range of typical common activities; from the questionnaire design to the analysis and the delivery of results; supporting the creation of various types of questions such as: Single Choice, Multiple Choice, Order Selection, Numerical, Textual, Selection Tables, etc. Rotator supports mechanisms for classification and unification of open questions, mechanisms for detecting inconsistencies among the surveyed subjects, exports to Excel and SPSS and many more features.
When a researcher needs to apply a survey, she/he has very few professional software options for its construction. The spectrum of possibilities goes from primitive and rudimentary systems based on black screens, going through expensive, hard to use tools, to unspecific software such as Excel, Access or online surveys, which normally create a lot of work before the data is cleaned and consistent. You might find eventually a good old software but with a lack of support or scalability that you require. Due to deficiency of tools in this area, some users have developed their own data processing systems using Excel, Access or any other tool available. From our observations, these experiences sooner or later become in a waste of time and money, since the costs and efforts used in creating your own software, will never pay its benefits. For this reason we offer “RotatorSurvey” a powerful and flexible system, updated and maintained by a serious and professional team dedicated to this task. Our goal is to support any survey of any kind, complexity or extensity.
All Rotator Applications can perfectly operate as Stand Alone mono-user, or on a multi-user environment; through the use of a LAN, a Terminal Servers, or by Application virtualization methods. This guarantees that your survey can be processed according to the infrastructure and budget that you have; you could work alone in your Survey, or you could work collaboratively using multiple transcribers, operators, supervisors and administrators, all ways are fully supported.
The modeling of an average survey can be done locally in a desktop or Laptop computer with the following characteristics: