What is Smart Summary?
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Smart Summary feature similarly works like a Crosstab but for Open End questions.
Smart Summaries are AI generated summaries that allow you to view verbatim summaries based on the total sample (Total), side-by-side with the contrastive summary based on different subgroups or Segment Variable(s) you have selected.
For an in-depth walkthrough, watch this video!
How to set it up?

1. In the Smart Summary page, select the OE question (as Rows) you'd like to generate summaries in the Open End Questions drop down. - Users can select multiple open ended questions (in a single row), if you want to have a "combined summary" for the selected open ends questions. Users can also rename the summary by clicking the pencil icon (i.e. Combined Drivers and Opinion)

2. Select the Closed Ended questions (as Column) that you'd like to select segment variables for.
- To add another segment click Add Column by hovering to top corner of Segment Variable box. The generated summaries for each column or Segment variables will be independent.
- For example, if we add Age and Gender to the segment variables, the summaries will show by Age, and by Gender separately. The results/analysis will not be combined for Age AND Gender.
- Please note that segments that have sample size less than n=5 will not be included in the key insights.
3. Click generate summary to generate your insights.
- In the Generated summary, the output will have summary for the Total column and Segment Variable column(s). Specifically for the Segment Variable column, the output will have key insights, as well the highlighted segment differences along with illustrative quotes.

- How are the quotes picked?
The prompt asks the AI to “find 1–3 representative verbatim quotes that illustrate how respondents expressed the theme” - so the emphasis is on representative, not necessarily most common. For example, if males tend to speak more about Theme A, we would choose a quote from a male respondent that best represents how that theme was expressed.
4. You can add Research Context to generate more specific summaries and cater your key insights to your research objectives. After updating your settings you have to click generate to update all your fields.
- When a single OE question is selected and no user brief is provided, please note that the summarization that appears in the total column is not exactly the same one as the seen dashboard for that question. Please note they may not be exactly the same but the differences are minor.
5. Users can create multiple tabs to organize your questions and rename them to your liking as well
6. Results can be exported in excel
Other Notes:
- What languages are supported for Smart Summary?
- Processing works same as AI Coding, i.e. we use machine translations, and so in that sense all inca languages are supported.
- Can analysis variables created post data collection, such those created for crosstab, be used as segment variables/banner points?
- No analysis variables cannot be used as segment variables/banner points in Smart Summary for now. The supported question types are: SINGLE_CHOICE, SCALE, CAROUSEL, MAP, VIRTUAL (only supported when the options are mutually exclusive).
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