How to upload data for AI Coding?

Modified on Mon, 10 Mar at 12:06 AM

To start a new coding project, go to the AI Coding Directory and click + New AI Coding

1. Upload

You will be directed to the inca AI coding page to Upload Dataset. You can either drop the file or upload the data set.

For the AI coding upload, users can upload a data file with one or multiple Verbatim columns, an optional Verbatim ID column and an optional Language column (when it's non-English).

The dataset may be uploaded as Microsoft Excel (.xlsx), CSV (.csv), or SPSS (.sav) file.

Verbatims - The verbatim column is simply the set of verbatims (spontaneous mentions from open-end questions) that you want to analyze. The AI coding supports up to 10,000 verbatims in each dataset or coding instance.

Verbatims IDs - Verbatim IDs are identifiers uniquely associated with each verbatim, which will be retained during analysis and available in the export. Note that verbatim IDs are also optional. If IDs are not provided, then unique IDs will be automatically generated.

Language IDs - AI coding can natively handle in many languages. However, if you would like to use machine translation to translate verbatims to English before processing, simply include a language id variable/column in your dataset file.
The list of supported language ids is available here. Note that Language IDs are also optional: if not provided, no machine translation will be performed.

2. Configure

From the file your have uploaded, select source for Verbatim text (your verbatim column) Verbatim unique IDs (your ID column) and Language IDs (language IDs column). You may select multiple verbatim columns from a data file, the model will run AI coding separately for each verbatim column.

3. Code

Also in the upload process, you can specify either to use an AI to create a codeframe or upload a codeframe by yourself.

Use an AI generated Codeframe

It usually takes a few mins to an hour to run the AI coding results depending on the # of verbatims.

Once uploaded, you will be redirected back to the AI Coding Directory page and see you project as Analyzing status. You will receive an email to notify once the coding processing is done and your project will the project status as Ready.

Use an existing Codeframe

You can either use an existing codeframe uploaded on your account or import a new codeframe.

A CodeFrame file is a CSV (.csv) file with a column labeled CodeLabel containing a list of code labels. It may also include the following optional columns:

CodeID (unique identifier)
CodeSentiment ("Positive", "Negative", or "Neutral")
CodeNet (label of net category)
Example 1 (example verbatim)
Example 2 (example verbatim)
Example 3 (example verbatim)

The filename of the uploaded file will be used as the CodeFrame label. You may download codeframe_example.csv to see an example codeframe file.

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