Smart text analysis: how our AI tool rapidly categorises large amounts of data

Is AI replacing the human researcher?

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Analysing hundreds or thousands of open answers from surveys, interviews or reviews is time-consuming. To better understand those answers, we group them into themes (for example: ease of use, service, delivery or reliability). At Digital Power, we use Large Language Models (LLMs) to quickly categorise high volumes of open answers. Our team built our own secure, transparent tool that lets us see exactly what happens under the hood. But is AI already advanced enough to replace our human researchers?

Our conclusion from an earlier blog was clear: AI is fast, seems easy to use and when given the right instructions, reasonably accurate. But many tools are a black box or make up incorrect answers. The human researcher remains essential for nuance, context and trustworthy insights.

We’ll take you through the process of categorising large volumes of qualitative data. In this article, you'll read the pros and cons for the researcher, both with and without the AI tool. At the end of this blog, we look ahead and discuss planned improvements to our AI tool. We keep learning and developing to make the collaboration between human and AI even more effective.

Step 1. Preparing the data

To use our AI tool, we place the dataset in a secure container in an Azure environment. In Databricks, we use a Python script to load the data. Our data engineers made the script user-friendly: as a researcher, you only fill in a few parameters, such as the location, name and format of the file. In this step, we can also easily filter out duplicates.

💡 With or without AI

Researchers also prepare data without AI; the tool mainly speeds up cleaning and filtering. It takes some time initially to figure out what your data should look like, where to store it and how the script works, but once you’ve done it: piece of cake!

Step 2. Creating categories with an LLM

This step requires some practice and iteration. As a researcher, you choose the number of categories to generate. Based on the output, you assess whether the number needs to be adjusted. When the categories don’t fully align, we can manually tweak them using SQL. For large datasets, using a sample is especially valuable: it saves time and reduces computing costs. One trade-off: always stay critical of data reliability. Ensure your sample is large enough to represent the entire dataset.

💡 With or without AI

How can a researcher judge whether the AI-generated categories match the data? When using AI like this, you haven’t yet immersed yourself in the content. For interviews you conducted yourself, this is easier. You know the context. But when analysing survey data, it becomes more challenging. To properly evaluate the categorisation, a researcher must always spend time understanding the data first.

Step 3. Classifying answers into categories

For this step, we use a prompt that positions our AI tool as an ‘opinion analyst'. The task: take each piece of text and classify it into one of the given categories. The advantage: the AI classification adds extra columns without changing the original data. This lets us see exactly what happens and ensures our opinion analyst doesn’t hallucinate (invent answers that aren’t there).

💡 With or without AI

Often, a single answer touches on multiple topics. Currently, the script allows each answer to be assigned to only one category. As a researcher, you have more flexibility: you can assign answers to several categories. There’s also the challenge of abbreviations, jargon and ambiguity. Our AI tool lacks the research and business context, making it harder to categorise accurately. On top of that, our AI tool still doesn’t understand sarcasm.

On the positive side: this step takes significantly less time than doing it manually. Not all answers are categorised correctly, which brings us to step 4.

Step 4. AI-based validation

To validate the categorisation, we assign our AI tool the role of “expert AI evaluator”. It assesses whether each categorisation is correct or incorrect and provides reasoning.

💡 With or without AI

Our expert AI evaluator is surprisingly good at improving incorrectly categorised answers—a promising sign. It not only corrects outputs that our human researcher flagged as illogical, but also provides valuable additional suggestions. However, it still remains necessary for a researcher to check the output. Again, the AI tool struggles with emotion, context and sarcasm.

Step 5. The insights

Our AI tool delivers solid and valuable work so far, but the most important step is still ahead: generating insights. This is where the AI tool’s knowledge currently ends. The output is our original list of answers with an associated category.

💡 With or without AI

Suppose the AI tool produces the category “satisfaction”. We know how many and which answers fall into this category, but not what the sentiment is. Are people satisfied or not? And what exactly are they satisfied or dissatisfied about? Here, the researcher’s expertise is vital: by exploring the data directly, they gain deep understanding of the content.

Optimising our AI tool

Our AI tool already performs well, but there’s plenty of room for improvement. In future iterations, we want the tool to:

• be usable without technical knowledge
• determine the number of categories automatically
• place an answer in multiple categories
• handle context, jargon and emotion
• analyse sentiment within each topic
• automatically generate summaries per category

We hope these improvements will allow our AI tool to add even more value in collaboration with researchers, who remain in control of interpretation and meaning.

Conclusion: the power lies in the collaboration between human and AI

AI shows that qualitative data analysis can be smarter, faster and more efficient. The biggest advantage of automatic categorisation is speed. AI also helps uncover patterns a researcher might overlook. But there’s a clear downside: the AI tool struggles with nuance, jargon, emotion, context and subjective language.

Our AI tool brings speed, structure and clarity, while the researcher provides context, interpretation and intuition. Individually, they each have limitations, but together they form a powerful duo, enabling faster and smarter insights. Should researchers be worried that AI will take over their jobs? No. Understanding context, assigning meaning and making the right interpretations; that remains human work, for now.

In short: let AI handle the heavy lifting, but rely on the researcher for the real insights.

This is an article by Mila van der Zwaag

Mila is a Researcher and Customer Experience Specialist at Digital Power. She has a background in Cognitive Psychology and likes to combine this knowledge about people and behaviour with data to arrive at the best solutions.

Mila van der Zwaag

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When are user goals optimally supported by a digital environment? Everyone has an idea about this, for example 'a pleasant purchase flow' or 'easy login'. How effectively you support the user is challenging to measure. However, it is everything that determines the success of your digital environment. To help you measure your success, or to check if something is missing in your current framework, we share our Customer Experience (CX) pyramid.

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Data-driven web and customer experience optimisation

Eneco customers can enter into or change an energy contract via the website, but also purchase a charging station or hire an energy coach, for example. Eneco wanted to bring in more expertise regarding the field of digital analytics. We helped Eneco find an extra Web analyst with whom this ambition could be fulfilled.

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Social Network Analysis at Election Time

Tuesday, 3 March 2020, was known as Super Tuesday, the day on which several American states vote simultaneously for the Democratic presidential candidate. We use this day as a case for the application of Social Network Analysis. This example is about elections, but you can also apply the same method to a commercial case where you replace the names of the candidates with, for example, different brand names.

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How to use Social Network Analysis to understand public opinion

The Corona measures are a much discussed topic on Twitter. The crisis team not only fights against Corona's effects on public health, but also tries to maintain legitimacy for the decision to keep certain measures in place among the public. With this practical case we explain how you can make public opinion on Twitter transparent with Social Network Analysis.

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Social Network Analysis: how to gain insight into social media networks

If your organisation is active on social media and you want to optimise the online strategy, you need to know what is happening online around you and the impact of your activities. Social Network Analysis can help you with that. We explain what it is, how it works and the purposes it serves.

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How text analysis helps RNW Media to listen and take action

RNW Media builds online communities in countries with limited freedoms. In these communities, young people can read and discuss sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and civil rights. In addition, RNW Media is working on advocacy – putting the interests of young people on the map with governments.

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From data to action for public services

There's no denying it. We all work with data and we generate huge amounts of new data every day. The data on our supermarket customer card, the disposal of household waste at the smart container, checking in with public transport, the number of hours our TV is on or refilling our parking meter. But how do you use that data effectively?

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Measurable impact Service Design team on UX internal tools

KLM Digital Studio builds innovative digital solutions to make working at KLM more efficient, effective and enjoyable. One of the teams within Digital Studio, the Service Design team, is concerned with user experience. They conduct user research, build designs and test design ideas for new digital solutions. KLM asked us to provide insight into the impact of this team on the UX of its internal tools.

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Product analytics for essential insights into usage and usability

KLM employees work with various applications on a daily basis. For example, the ground staff uses Appy2Help. This digitises work processes and supports employees in answering all questions from passengers. iMech helps to free up more time for maintenance instead of administration and the intranet is my. klm is the starting point for everyone within KLM to find information. KLM asked us to support various teams in developing good applications using insights from user data.

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5 metrics for optimising the Customer Experience

As Customer Experience Specialists at Digital Power, we regularly come up with 5 metrics that help us measure user quality. With this we are taking the first steps in optimising the Customer Experience. We are happy to walk you through all 5 of them. Are you going to use them from now on to analyse the user experiences of your product or service?

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How do you find the right data scientist?

More and more organisations are getting started with data science. A logical consequence of this is clearly a growing number of related vacancies. But how do you set up a useful job description for a data scientist – and mostly: how do you actually pick the right one? We're giving you some hints on what to do, and what not.

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From ethical data to action

The introduction of the new privacy law (GDPR) in 2018 has ensured that many organisations put privacy high on the agenda. In this article you can read about the 5 ethical risks of working digitally and using data. We also share a concrete solution: the Responsible Data Framework.

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Customer Experience trends

When we talk about Customer Experience, we mean virtual assistance in the form of voice and chatbot applications. It is expected that these will make interaction with the customer more accessible and easier. Companies like to go along with these kinds of innovative trends to improve their services. Is this indeed what Customer Experience Optimisation is all about?

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Determining the location of gardens using Data Science

Residential investor Vesteda is working on a new website. If an available rental home has a garden, the location of the garden must be listed on the webpage of that home. This information was not yet available in the database. We were instructed to determine the location of the garden based on the coordinates of the homes.

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Customer Experience Optimisation: a structured approach

More and more organisations are aware of the impact of the customer experience on business results and competitiveness. Research shows that 84% of organsations prioritise customer experience more than they did two years ago. In fact to 76%,  it is high or top priority. Further research shows that the customer experience is essential to the marketing strategy according to CMOs.

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How does Data Science work in daily practice?

Organisations wanting to get started with data quickly ask for Data Science solutions. Data Science is often seen as the holy grail of data-driven working. But what does a successful Data Science project actually look like in practice? And how can it serve your organisation? In this series of articles, we take you through all the elements you need to achieve success for your organisation with Data Science.

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Application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text mining for process improvement.

Fair Wear is a non-profit organisation that aims to improve the working conditions of employees in garment factories. The NGO has collected a lot of documentation about its activities in recent years, for example in the form of reports from a complaint line for factory employees, reports of audits that check whether factories comply with the guidelines, and reports of training for factory employees. This information is stored as typed text, usually in Word or PDF format.

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Reliable insight into crowds on trains and stations using an algorithm

An increasing number of people are traveling by public transportation. Several stations in The Netherlands are being rebuilt or renovated to keep up with the growing number of train passengers. For the rebuilding and layout plans, information was needed on station traffic. NS Stations also wanted to improve transfer safety in collaboration with ProRail.

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More employee engagement using inspirational sessions about the employee experience

In the tight labour market, professionals no longer choose their new employer only because of the employment conditions. Increasingly, they decide whether or not to come on board and stick around based on employee experience. The 'employee experience' is therefore important in all phases. Not only at the recruitment and selection level, but also, for example, when processing a claim.

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Customer Experience Optimisation

Residential investor Vesteda is working on a new website. This must offer (potential) tenants and B2B customers, such as investors and pension funds, an optimal online experience. Buyer personas of the various B2C target groups had already been developed. Together with Vesteda, we also started to map out the B2B target groups. In addition, together with the customer, we developed the optimal customer journeys for the most important buyer personas.

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More online conversions thanks to an improved UX thanks to a user experience review

A Smart Security Scan is a tool that allows you to test the security of websites. The reports showed that something went wrong in the flow where people have to verify their IP address to be able to scan. We went looking for a solution. We also gave tips to optimise online conversion.

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App optimisation for a better user experience

'How do we make our app more accessible to people from Vietnam?' During a Learning @ Location Day, our multi-disciplinary team of data professionals worked on this Oxfam Novib challenge.

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Higher customer satisfaction and increased conversion by setting up an A/B test environment

Vodafone started a 3-month 'digital boost' project with the aim of improving the conversion of the online shop. The project team consisted of external digital professionals, each with their own specialism. As part of this project, we set up an A/B test environment with the aim of improving the user experience and thus increasing conversion.

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