My team here at Ohio State University built a little web app that, I think, is
a great tool that you'll enjoy using. So I want to show you step by step how
you're going to be able to use the Street Seen app to create a visual survey.
The first thing you're going to do is you're going to go and press the Log In
button. And you'll be able to log in via
Coursera, so you can simply sign in with Coursera.
So just press that button and you'll be able to go ahead and log in.
Alright, once you are logged in then what you'll be able to do is click on the My
Research button. And then what you're going to do is
you're going to choose the Create a New Study button.
So what we're going to want to be able to do is go ahead and provide a title that
will name our study. So, in this case, I'm going to say the
Bicycling in Columbus Ohio. [SOUND].
You want to be a little bit specific so that way if you create more than one
survey that you'll be able to know which one you're talking about.
And then you'll type in a brief description that will describe what your
survey is about. This description is principally for
yourself, so that you're able to understand what the research question is
about if you go to it later. And then you're going to choose a
question for the voter. So you can choose any question you want.
So in this case, I'm going to type in, I'm typing, which street would you prefer
to ride a bicycle on? So please note that you cannot change the
title of the question, once you launch the study.
So be sure you're happy with the question.
And then you can choose to share your research or not.
And so what will happen is if you choose to share your research, then others will
be able to see the results, of your survey.
Making that publicly available for anybody that might wish to use that
results data. So what we want to do is go ahead and say
Create a Study. Now what we want to do is, we want to
create our area of study. So in this case, what I want to do is
Zoom In a little bit, you can adjust the map.
And I want to do a study, and I will just add the points of where I want this study
to be, so I want to keep it inside of this highway.
Alright, and so then once I've created four, these I've closed that area in.
If you want to adjust any of these, you certainly can.
You can move it any way you'd want, and that will stretch your study area as
preferred. So I'm going to say the name of the area
is Columbus, Ohio. Doug said, Columbus, Ohio inside the 270
loop. And I can add a brief description
explaining this. Then what you're going to do is you're
going to specify how many images you want to pull.
So for the purposes of your survey you may want to have say 10 sets of images
that people will compare, so 20 different pictures.
So you may want to pull more than that in order to be able to have pictures to
choose from. So in this case, I'm going to choose 50
images, please don't choose more than a 100 images at a time.
Because what will happen is that we have limits on the number of Google Street
View images that we can pull down. And if you exceed those numbers then OSU
gets charged a lot of money. So we want to prevent that so we just ask
that you choose no more than a 100 images at a time.
And so, what we're going to do, is have these images 50 meters apart, but you
could choose any distance that you might want.
Now, if you want a very specific geography, you could choose an individual
street, a region, you can choose at whatever scale you might want.
Then, you can choose to either Save and Add another, if you choose to Save and
Add Another, then you can add another area.
And so, in this case, I want to go ahead and add another area.
But what I'm going to be doing here, is I want to compare areas that are inside the
loop to areas that are outside of the loop.
So I'm going to just choose an area in Northern Columbus, so I will just put my
pinpoints here. And what we'll be able to do is compare
between these two geographic areas. To be able to understand whether or not
people prefer to bicycle in the are, area of Columbus or the outer area or
Columbus. So I'm going to select another 50 images,
and I want those to be 50 apart. And then I'll be ready, and I want to go
ahead and start my study. Now, what has happened is that we have a
series of images that have come up. We will be able to do is then Edit these
images as appropriate. So in my case what I want to be able to
do is Capture the road image because this is what we're asking people if they would
like to bicycle on. So, for example, this picture's perfect
because from the bicyclist's perspective, I can imagine what it would be like to
bicycle down this roadway. And a voter would be able to determine
and understand, hm, would I like to bicycle down this roadway?
If you compare this to, for example, this image, where what you see is somebody's
yard. What you would want to do, is go ahead
and Click on this image and then you can Rotate the image around to be able to get
the street perspective. What you would be able to do is Rotate
the image around to get the street perspective.
So you can Edit these images as you would prefer.
So in this case I want to open this image up, and I want to Delete this, because I
don't want to use this in my particular study.
So I can simply Delete the image, and it's going to ask me to confirm.
So what I'm going to do, is I'm going to go ahead and go through and Edit each of
these images. In this case, what i want to be able to
show, that for my study is, I want to be able to have ten images that are in the
Northern part of Columbus. And I want to have ten images that are in
the Central part of Columbus, to be able to compare and contrast.
So that I have a total of 20 images for my particular survey.
So what I'll do is just go through, go ahead and Edit all of these.
And then what will happen is that once I'm done with all of the editing, then I
can choose to, Save my study. And then, when I'm ready, so I've
completed everything that I want to do. Then what I'm going to want to do is go
ahead and Launch that survey. So it will ask me After launching your
study, I will no longer be able to change the question Add new areas, Add or Remove
or Modify the images. So I can say Yes, launch my study, and
that's the button that you're going to press.
So once we have launched our study, you will see that we now have that this has
opened up and that I have 0 Votes. What I can do is just click on the Vote
button, and this will take me to my survey link, okay?
So what I can do is simply Copy this survey link, and then I will be able to
share that with my friends and colleagues.
I'll be able to share it on social media, and ask people to complete the, this
visual survey. Going to press on the Analyze button and
what this will do is we pull up a Summary of results.
So, we can see that we have a total of 7 Votes that have been collected.
You will certainly have far more votes than this.
And what we can see is the total number of times that this particular image was
favored and the total number of votes. Alright, and so we can simply see that
this image is from inside the 270 loop and this one from outside of this
particular loop. And we can go down and see all of the
results. Then what we can do, is we can also press
on these other buttons to get different kinds of results and you can also choose
to Download the data. And you can choose to download it as a
CSV file or an XLS file, either the Summary or the Full Results.
This is a simple, easy to use tool. We hope that you'll find it to be
something you find useful, and we look forward to seeing your results.