Using Survey123 to Gather and Map Survey Data

Introduction

  The purpose of this lab is to learn how to use Survey123 by making use of an online tutorial. The Esri tutorial Get Started with Survey123 for ArcGIS walks the user through the process of creating a survey, completing and submitting the survey, analyzing the survey data, and sharing the survey. The survey created in this lab was based off of this Esri lesson. One goal of this lab is to summarize the process of creating the survey. Another goal is to display and describe the maps created from the data in the survey.

Methods

Create the Survey

Fig 5.0: Examples of Different Question Types.

 Survey123 has a very nice user interface which makes it easy to add questions to a survey. For this particular survey  a total of 29 questions were inserted. The questions added had to to do with HOA emergency preparedness. Different questions had different formats. This can be seen on the right in figure 5.0. For this tutorial the most common question type was Single Choice. 

  Some questions had followup questions if a certain answer was picked. For example, one of the questions was "What type of residence do you live in?" with the answer options of "Single family (house)" or "Multi-family (apartment, condo)". If the "Single family (house)" option was picked then the question "How many levels does your home have?" was displayed. If that answer wasn't picked then that follow up question wouldn't display.

  After choosing a question, the label, and answers had to be changed from the default settings. This can be seen in figure 5.1 below. Also, this is where the layout can be changed, and where the question validation can be deemed as required.

  All 29 questions were made by using various tools within the Add and Edit ribbons.

Fig 5.1: Edit Properties of a Single Choice Question

Completing and Sharing the Survey

Fig 5.2: Survey display on a mobile device

  Once the survey had been published, to get some data associated with it, the survey was completed seven times with varying answers. The survey was taken twice on a mobile device, and five times through a PC web browser. Figure 5.2 on the right shows what the survey looks like on a mobile device. After the survey was complete on the mobile device, a screen saying "Survey Completed" popped up. This is shown below in figure 5.3.

Fig 5.3: Survey Completed 

Fig 5.4: How to Open ArcGIS online from Survey123

  After this, the data was used to create a map in ArcGIS online. The map was created by first clicking on the Open in ArcGIS Map Viewer button under the Data tab under My Surveys.  This is shown in figure 5.4 on right. In the lower left of the image, the arrows points to the Open in ArcGIS Map Viewer button which when clicked upon opens up ArcGIS online. Data is also displayed in a tabular format on Survey123. The headings for the data can be seen in figure 5.4, but figure 5.5 below shows the downloaded .csv file which displays the data in an Excel format. Some of the data is hidden from view because the image would have been too large to show in its entirety. In ArcGIS online, some of the layer properties had to be edited so that the labels made sense. Once the map was made, it was shared to the UW-Eau Claire - Geography and Anthropology group.

Fig 5.5: Example of Survey Data in a .csv file

Results/Discussion

 The name HOA Emergency Preparedness Survey Results was given to the map. The map can be found here. Also, a screenshot of it is shown below in figure 5.6. The map shows the locations of where the respondents said they were from according to where they placed their pin. Three points are around Minneapolis and St.Paul, and three are in Eau Claire. In the map, it looks like there is only one point in Eau Claire, but that is because the three points are so close together. The reason there isn't a point placed in Chicago is because there was no answer recorded for the map question in the survey by that survey taker.

Fig 5.6: Screenshot of the data displayed in ArcGIS online.

  Another map was created using the heat-map feature. This time, the map was created in ArcGIS online, but was then edited in Adobe Illustrator to give the map basic cartographic elements. The heat-map, shown below in figure 5.7, also shows where the respondents mapped where they were from. This heat-map does a better job of showing that Eau Claire is hot spot, The spot around Eau Claire is very intense/high because three of the respondents mapped themselves being from this area. There are a heat spot around Minneapolis and St. Paul as well because this is where other survey respondents are from. This map does a better job of representing where the survey respondents are located compared to the one in figure 5.6 because it gives the proper weight to Eau Claire, and because it is organized better.

Fig 5.7: Heat-map of Survey Respondent's Locations

Conclusion

  In conclusion, Survey123 can be a useful resource for collecting data. It can be used for many different things, including the GIS field as illustrated by this tutorial. Another example of using Survey123 could be if one wanted to know how much rain fell across Wisconsin on a certain day. A quick survey could be created asking how much rain has fallen and then could be sent out through email, and social media to generate the most responses. If many people responded to the survey, one could then map out the rainfall totals across the state of Wisconsin. Survey123 is a very neat survey as well, which makes people more inclined to respond and answer all of the questions. It is a good way to gather a lot of data in a relatively short amount of time.

Sources

EsriGIS, Get Started with Survey123 for ArcGIS

  https://learn.arcgis.com/en/projects/get-started-with-survey123/lessons/create-a-survey.htm 

Survey123, Survery 123 for ArcGIS

  https://survey123.arcgis.com