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Whitepapers

11 whitepapers from DataLion's practice: for institutes turning delivery into a product, for insights teams taking ownership of their studies, for methodologists, data-protection officers and universities. Each one is a PDF with worksheets and checklists, written by Dr. Benedikt Köhler, CEO of DataLion. The download is free after a short registration.

40.7 percent: making survey data quality provable – whitepaper cover

Featured Institutes & agencies · Corporate insights teams

40.7 percent: making survey data quality provable

Speeders, straightliners and the GDQ code frame: documenting data cleaning instead of defending it

  • The German GDQ figures with definitions, bases and the report's own caveats
  • The GDQ code frame: 18 removal reasons with stage and degree of automation
  • Checks and default thresholds for seven codes, from speeders to duplicates
Details & download PDF · 14 pages · 20 min read
The Reporting Factory – whitepaper cover

Institutes & agencies

The Reporting Factory

What delivering studies really costs, and how institutes turn delivery into a product

PDF · 11 pages · 25 min read

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Dead data: studies you can neither analyse nor combine – whitepaper cover

Corporate insights teams

Dead data: studies you can neither analyse nor combine

How insights teams take ownership of their studies: deliverables, model clauses and the research data stack

PDF · 13 pages · 20 min read

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Patient Surveys Without the Agency – whitepaper cover

Hospitals & care

Patient Surveys Without the Agency

How hospitals and hospital groups survey patients, referrers and relatives themselves and analyse down to the ward

PDF · 12 pages · 24 min read

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AI with survey data, GDPR-proof – whitepaper cover

Institutes & agencies · Corporate insights teams · BI & data teams

AI with survey data, GDPR-proof

What language models do well with survey data, where they fail, and how to approve them without data leaking out

PDF · 14 pages · 24 min read

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The Business Climate Report as a Member Benefit – whitepaper cover

Associations & chambers

The Business Climate Report as a Member Benefit

How associations and chambers get their business climate survey and member survey out of Excel and turn them into the case for the membership fee

PDF · 11 pages · 22 min read

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The Dealer Network as a Dataset – whitepaper cover

Manufacturers with dealer networks · Corporate insights teams

The Dealer Network as a Dataset

DSI, CSI and the reporting cascade: how manufacturers measure their sales network down to the outlet

PDF · 12 pages · 26 min read

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The Customer Monitor as a Sales Instrument – whitepaper cover

Utilities & energy suppliers

The Customer Monitor as a Sales Instrument

How municipal utilities and regional suppliers use their customer survey, image study and heat-planning citizen survey for the board and for sales at the same time

PDF · 12 pages · 23 min read

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Product Research with Research Methods – whitepaper cover

Product & UX teams · Corporate insights teams

Product Research with Research Methods

SUS, UEQ, MaxDiff, Van Westendorp and product-market fit: the guide for product and UX teams that need more than a response distribution

PDF · 11 pages · 27 min read

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MaxDiff, Conjoint, Driver Analysis – whitepaper cover

Institutes & agencies · Corporate insights teams

MaxDiff, Conjoint, Driver Analysis

Which method carries which decision, how much sample it needs, and where studies go wrong

PDF · 13 pages · 22 min read

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Migration Guide: When your Survey Tool expires – whitepaper cover

Universities · Institutes & agencies · Corporate insights teams

Migration Guide: When your Survey Tool expires

Secure the data, choose a successor, protect running surveys: a plan for the last 16 weeks before the cut-off

PDF · 14 pages · 18 min read

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Dr. Benedikt Köhler

The author

Dr. Benedikt Köhler · Co-founder of HybridAI and CEO of DataLion

Dr. Benedikt Köhler is co-founder of HybridAI and CEO of DataLion. Cognilytica lists him among the top 50 most influential data scientists worldwide. The whitepapers come out of projects with institutes, insights teams and universities.

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