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.
Sending data from another website to Harmony using Javascript We have exposed functionality for external websites to integrate with Harmony and add an “import to Harmony” button, either generated in Javascript or in Python. Create an Instrument object with at least an instrument_name and questions property in JSON - the questions must have a question_no and question_text properties eg: { "instrument_name": "Smoking behaviour", "questions": [ { "question_no": "1", "question_text": "Do you currently smoke or have you ever smoked?
Harmony at PyData London - 86th Meetup Update: you can download the slides from the presentation here Topic: NLP and generative models for psychology research Thomas Wood will present our work on Harmony, harmonydata.ac.uk, which is a free online tool that uses generative AI and LLMs to help psychologists analyse datasets. It uses Python, Pandas and HuggingFace Sentence Transformers to find similarities between questionnaires. Psychologists and social scientists often have to match items in different questionnaires, such as “I often feel anxious” and “Feeling nervous, anxious or afraid”.
