#Data generator generator#
#Data generator verification#

Text at the bottom of the dialog box provides help on acceptable input for a given question. Questions in loops are organized according to the loop suffix. Clicking Defined Values shows the tab:Īll questions in the study are listed here except for page breaks, login question, terminate, quotas, and text. The Defined Values tab provides a way for users to supply specific answers instead of allowing the program to answer randomly.

#Data generator generator#

If you find the Lighthouse Studio Data Generator browser encountering page load errors when Use Browser is checked, adjust the setting to be Longer.

Slower machines may require this setting to be Longer. Faster machines allow this setting to be Shorter. (This setting is automatically adjusted to the number of cores if you try to set it to a value higher than the number of cores on your machine.)īrowser page load wait: This setting is to help the Lighthouse Studio Data Generator Use Browser work properly on your computer. Lighthouse Studio ignores this value when using the browser. The maximum value is equal to the number of available cores on your machine. Simultaneous Respondents: If Use Browser is unchecked, this setting controls how many respondent records are generated at the same time. A proportion of the generated respondents will drop out at randomly selected questions when set to a value less than 100. Required questions (including Conjoint and MaxDiff) are always answered.Ĭompletion Rate: This indicates the percent of generated respondents that will be expected to complete the entire survey. This can help to identify where and why errors occurred.įrom the Generate Data dialog, when the Advanced button is clicked, the Generate Data Advanced Settings dialog is displayed:Īnswer rate for questions that are not required: This tells Lighthouse Studio how often to ignore questions that are not Required (such as a numeric or select question where respondents are allowed to proceed without providing a response). If any problems occurred during data generation (like bad list building logic, bad skip logic, no available identifiers), then the button View Errors is available. Clicking Get Data downloads the generated data into Lighthouse Studio. When data generation is finished, the Generate Data dialog is shown:Ĭlicking View Data in Admin Module opens a browser and logs the user into the Admin Module.

After the study is verified and the local test folder is made, the Generating Data dialog is shown: These options display additional help text in the questionnaire while Lighthouse Studio is generating data.Ĭlicking Generate causes Lighthouse Studio to verify the study, make the local test folder, and generate data on the machine. If Use Browser is checked, Show Question Names and Show Variable Names becomes enabled.

Use Browser will execute custom JavaScript.

#Data generator verification#

It will not use any custom JavaScript for verification or updating hidden values. Generating data without Use Browser checked will run as many simultaneous respondents at a time as it can. A web browser is opened and the user can see questions being automatically answered. Use Browser shows a user how Lighthouse Studio is generating data instead of simple progress messages. Remove Randomization ignores page randomization, randomized blocks, and questions that exist in the survey for this session. Remove All Skip Logic ignores all skips for this session. Start at Question sets the first question Lighthouse Studio will use to begin generating data. This lets you generate data locally on your machine. Study bypass URLs are also acceptable ( see help). If you are testing a study posted to a remote server, Study URL should direct the Data Generator to the remote study URL's login.html page. If you want to generate test data remotely for a survey already posted to a remote server, click Field | Generate Data. This means the Data Generator can be used for creating test data quickly, for testing study logic or serving as a study tester. All skips, randomization, quotas, terminate links, identifiers, link variables, and merged fields function identically to how they function with real respondents. Lighthouse Studio can generate data locally or on a remote study at a designated URL. The Data Generator automatically answers the questionnaire using random answers (unless you override this behavior and specify that certain questions should be answered a specific way). This can help with testing skip patterns and quotas, for example. The Data Generator creates synthetic data to test a survey prior to fielding.