Harmony tends to perform better if you upload a file with item numbers.
If there are are no question numbers in the instrument, it’s very hard for Harmony to distinguish question text from other content such as the copyright information. Click here to see an example PDF with question numbers included.
Also, if your PDF is a scanned document, please see if you can find a fully digitised (OCR’ed) version of the document.
We suggest either finding a file with question numbers or better quality content. Or try a different file format such as Word, Excel or CSV. We have guidance on formatting your files for Harmony.
Harmony supports:
Finally, feel free to raise an issue to let us know that your PDF isn’t being parsed. Please also share the PDF in question. Harmony is an open source tool for social sciences research.
New Feature in Development: Enhancing Harmony with User-Centred Discovery At Harmony, we’re working on a new feature aimed at making data exploration and analysis even more efficient and intuitive. To ensure this feature addresses real needs, we’re conducting co-design sessions with researchers, data-managers and other users, allowing us to develop a tool that solves real-life user requirements. The Co-Design Approach: Co-design allows us to build this feature with direct input from those who will use it most.
We have a few more issues that have been added to the issue trackers. If you are new and would like to make a pull request in either the Python or R libraries feel free to pick these up - they should be quite small. Easy issues in Python library We would like to expose the “between instrument matches” and the “negation” switches in the Python library and then from the API side.