Webinar

How to Analyze 1000s of Tables Using AI

Every survey analysis starts the same way: too many tables, too many numbers, and somewhere inside them, a story worth telling.

The old workflow still works: creating lots of tables, stat testing, merging categories, diagonalizing tables, visualizations, and hunting for alternative plausible explanations. But it is slow, and too much analyst time gets spent grinding before the real thinking begins.

AI changes that workflow.

Used well, AI can help reduce the noise, surface patterns, suggest hypotheses, flag alternative explanations, and propose ways to decompose a result. Used badly, it can produce a confident-sounding story that is not supported by the data.

In this webinar, we’ll look at:

This webinar covers how to use AI to analyze large volumes of survey data – reducing hundreds of pages of cross-tabs into a clear, defensible story – using eight core data reduction techniques alongside human analyst judgment.

  • How to use AI as part of a rigorous survey analysis workflow — not as a replacement for judgment, but as a way to get to the judgment faster.
  • What AI can do, what it can’t do, and how an experienced analyst can use it to move faster from tables to insight.

Transcript

This webinar is focused on how to go from thousands of tables to one clear story.

Frequently asked questions

What do the significance arrows on a table mean?

They flag whether a change between two time periods is statistically real or just random sampling noise. Displayr runs a statistical test in the background – a low p-value means the change is unlikely to be caused by randomness, but that doesn’t automatically mean the market itself moved. It could still reflect an issue with data collection.

It depends on the table. For time-series data, each number is compared to the previous period. For a single cross-tab, comparing a subgroup to the “net” isn’t statistically ideal, since the net already includes that subgroup – the more valid comparison is against the other categories combined, which Displayr calculates automatically.

There’s no fixed sequence. Each technique is a tool applied based on what a given table needs – you look at the data, apply whichever technique fits best, and keep repeating the process until the table is simple and easy to read.

Yes. Any report can be published to the web as a shareable dashboard, ranging from a small summary of key metrics to a fully detailed report. A common modern approach is to include everything and let the client explore the data directly through chat, rather than manually curating a short list of numbers for them.

It was generated using a custom “skill” – a saved set of instructions – that reads through a full set of report pages and writes a summary of conclusions. This capability is expected to become available as a built-in product feature.

Meet the host

Tim Bock, Founder of Displayr

Tim is a data scientist, who has consulted, published academic papers, and won awards, for problems/ techniques as diverse as neural networks, mixture models, data fusion, market segmentation, IPO pricing, small sample research, and data visualization.

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