[Software] Processing Google Forms: question columns for analysis without manual renaming and SPSS
Reddit r/statistics4w4 min read
For many people working with survey data from Google Forms, long question headers can be inconvenient for analysis, especially when preparing data for SPSS/R/Python or computing scale scores. I ran into this problem and built a small Google Sheets function that maps question columns into shorter, analysis-ready variable names while keeping the original Form responses untouched. Example use case: - keep raw Google Forms responses unchanged - create shorter variable names such as Q1, Q2, Q3 - reverse-code selected items - compute scale means or reliability statistics afterward I’m curious how ot
