Hey everyone,

I've got some homework tasks in topic surveys and diagrams. The first task is to normalize the input of a survey, because the structure of the data is changing from time-to-time. So there are three types of surveys:

• static fields, where text is stored
• dynamic ones, where the user can select one option
• and multiselect fields, where the user can select multiple options

So I'm not really a statistics guy, so I have really no idea what I can do with that incomming data.

So the data I have is stored in an orbital XML file from there I can easily get how man times a survey was filled, and how many times a field was filled, so I can (for eg on a pie chart show the relation of filled or not filled). The second idea is to show the relation between the content of a multi option element using a bar chart or so.

In case of the multi option elements I've got the idea to show data in implication of one option. But the question is, what could be shown?

The other problem are the static elements (text fields and so). What data could be represented from a single field?

The data in the XML field is collected from 2001 to 2005 So maybe I can work with the dates of the surveys, but as I said, i don't really know how to process the data, to collect as much data as possible.