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Cleaning Survey Data: How AI Saves You From Spreadsheet Hell
Your Google Form export is a mess — AI can clean, code, and pivot it before you open Excel.
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- 1The big idea
- 2data cleaning
- 3Google Forms
- 4pivot
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Section 1
The big idea
Open-ended Google Form responses are the hardest data to use. AI can categorize 200 responses into themes faster than you can read them.
Some examples
- Paste 200 free-text responses to Claude: 'Group these into 5 themes'
- Ask ChatGPT to flag duplicate or joke entries to remove
- Have AI write the Google Sheets formula to pivot your codes
- Use Claude to spot outliers worth investigating, not deleting
Try it!
If you have any Google Form data, export it now. Ask Claude to find the top 5 themes in the open-ended responses.
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