Field notes, deeper ideas.
Articles, field experience and insights on data collection, processing and visualization — for humanitarian and development work.
Le Sphinx V5 Plus²: the complete software for your statistical surveys
From questionnaire to analysis, Le Sphinx V5 Plus² covers the entire survey lifecycle: design, frequency tables, cross-tabulations, multivariate analyses and report production.
ODK Build: design XLSForm forms without coding
A free, offline-capable tool to build mobile data collection forms — from simple questions to GPS coordinates — and export an XLSForm file in just a few clicks.
Five classic pitfalls when designing a KoboToolbox form
After dozens of field deployments, the same errors keep appearing. Anticipating them at design time saves days of debugging and yields much cleaner data.