

{"id":66176,"date":"2018-12-28T01:17:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/?p=66176"},"modified":"2018-12-28T01:17:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:17:16","slug":"numerical-binning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/numerical-binning\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerical binning just made grouping open-ended numerical text easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Numerical-Binning-QuestionPro.jpg\" alt=\"Numerical Binning QuestionPro\" width=\"992\" height=\"594\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever asked respondents to input numeric data and wanted to arrange groups of numbers into intervals? You can activate this option with our number binning tool. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Numerical Binning is a way to group a number of more or less continuous values into a smaller number of &#8220;bins&#8221;. Creating ranges or bins will help to understand the numerical data better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, if you have age data on \u00a0a group of people, you might want to arrange their ages into a smaller number of age intervals. Creating age bins will further help you to understand the nature of a particular age groups created.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To create a range for a numeric question type go to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Workspace \u00bb Add Single Row Text \u00bb Settings \u00bb Numeric Data \u00bb Metadata \u00bb Range<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Numerical-Binning-Range.png\" alt=\"Numerical Binning Range\" width=\"992\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, provide a label for the range to be created, which is a name given to the range you wish to creat. It can be numeric or alphabetical. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Range of label examples<\/b><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Create income bins with labels: \u00a0Low income, Medium income, and High income.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Create age bins with labels \u00a0Under 18 years old, 18 &#8211; 25 years old, 25 &#8211; 50 years, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, provide numbers in start and end ranges. Click on \u2018add range\u2019 to add a row and create more bins. A maximum of 7 rows can be added.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is the analytical output for numerical binning?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nce the range settings have been updated, and responses are collected, the visualization of the number binning range can be viewed in the dashboard as a histogram.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Viewing the histogram<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Login \u00bb Analytics \u00bb Dashboard \u00bb Scroll<\/strong> down to the question number to view the results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Numerical-Binning-Histogram.png\" alt=\"Numerical Binning Histogram\" width=\"992\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results in the histogram provides the frequency count of the range created. If you wish to make changes to the range labels, you can change the range values under edit survey settings. The histogram under \u2018Dashboards\u2019 will change accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This feature is available exclusively for enterprise license clients. If you are interested in number binning, we recommend to connect with our account executives to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/a\/TakeSurvey?tt=av8lhGVgT80%3D&amp;externalID=0&amp;mode=languageSelected\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">learn more about our enterprise solution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Our enterprise license includes a dedicated customer success manager, access to advanced questions, settings, analytics, and integration options.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever asked respondents to input numeric data and wanted to arrange groups of numbers into intervals? 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