Evidence · companion tool
Data Collection
Collect your research data where you’ll analyse it
Empirical research used to mean designing your study in one tool, collecting responses in a generic form builder, and carrying a CSV back by hand. Data Collection closes that gap: build a consented survey, share a public link, and send the responses straight into real statistical analysis, without leaving your project.
What Data Collection does
Consent comes first, always
Every form opens with a participant-information and consent page (a research-grade template is included). Respondents cannot reach question one without accepting. The ethics step is built into the instrument, not left to memory.
Anonymity you don't have to trust: it's structural
Responses are stored as answers and a timestamp, nothing else. The database has no column for IP addresses or device data, so anonymity can't be weakened by a setting. It simply has nowhere to leak.
A public link, no accounts
Publish and share one link (or close it any time). Respondents answer on any device without signing up: Likert scales, single and multiple choice, numbers, and open text, mobile-first.
Abuse-resistant by default
Every submission is validated server-side against your question schema, response limits are enforced atomically (a form that fills mid-request stores nothing extra), bots are silently dropped, and rate limits guard the public endpoint.
Watch responses land
A live counter and response table in your project, with one-click CSV export at any time. Your data is never locked in.
One click to real statistics
"Send to Data Analysis" turns your responses into a dataset in the same pipeline as a CSV upload: descriptives, t-tests, ANOVA, regression and more (computed by code, never guessed by a model), flowing on into your Results chapter.
Grounded by design
Collection is part of your project’s record: form creation, publishing, and closing all land in the audit trail, and the numbers in your thesis trace from respondent answers through computed statistics, never through a model’s guess.
Works with
Data Collection is a companion to Data Analysis within the 17 connected tools (your responses become an ordinary dataset you can analyse, chart, and write up).