Do you need Classification in your online Survey?

Hello everybody. Many times as a researcher you have several items or factors and you need to ask from some other people who are expert in that area or are usual customers to classify your findings. For example you have found 50 different item which are critical in cloud computing and it seems that some of them have similarities. You need to put similar items in one category. But you need some experts do it for you.

If you are in to paper-based survey you do not have much problem. However, it can be a little difficult for your participant to do it. Nowadays, there are a lot of online survey websites which you can separate your questionnaire online between broader statistical society. Unfortunately, in this section you cannot find an online survey website which advance classification service to you.

So, what should we do? No one did not think for creating such tool for research? The question is yes. This technique is called Card Sorting. Fortunately there are some good websites that advance this service. Nevertheless, finding unlimited free services is difficult. Below I introduce a few of these websites which advance Card Sorting service.

• OptimalSort: This website is very user friendly UI and you can launch your card sorting very quickly. It has a free version of card sorting for its user but it has been limited to 10 participants and only 30 questions. Practically, such free service is only a demo not free service. How about the price? For one year it cost 990$ and for a month 109$. 

• SortWeb:  This is another choice which we have and it also seems user friendly. At first glance it seems that SortWeb is more costly than OptionalSort. It costs 149$. It does not have expiration date and limited participants to 100 people in Single Study version. The good news about Sortweb is that they have discount for non-profit studies. If you send an email from your academic e-mail, they will give you 50% discount. It means for single study around 75$. 

Both of these online card sorting websites have analysis sections. So, you can see the results and analysis of your research every time you will. If you have doubt about it works you can refer to each of above websites and use from demo version and get familiar how they work.