Studio Overview

Siamang Studio — Overview

Siamang Studio is a survey platform for researchers and small teams: a visual questionnaire builder, publishing and fieldwork monitoring, a response database with exports, a node-based analysis canvas, live dashboards and reports — without writing a line of code.

What makes it different from the usual survey tool: every document you build is also Python. Your questionnaire compiles to questionnaire.py, every analysis flow to its own .py, and any version of your project downloads as a research bundle — a zip that reproduces your tables, charts and report outside Studio, on the siamang engine the bundle pins. Nothing you make in Studio is trapped in Studio.

Click to build. Download the code.

• App: studio.siamang.org
• Published surveys: study.siamang.org/<survey-id>/ — one permanent link per environment

Beta. Studio is in open beta. Signing up gives you your own organization on a 30-day Pro trial. When the trial ends the organization continues on the Free plan — nothing is deleted. See Plans, Trial and Billing.

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What you can do

Stage	In Studio	Page
Build	Pages, blocks, nine question types plus presets, a visual condition builder, branching, quotas, randomization, a codebook built alongside the questions, theme, scripts, import from Qualtrics / LimeSurvey / SurveyJS	The Builder
Test	Engine validation, a live preview on the real runtime, a routing walkthrough, simulated respondents, a public preview link for reviewers	Testing Your Survey
Field	Environments (pilot, main), permanent links, QR codes, embeds, access codes, captcha, one response per browser, panel-provider returns, email invitations with reminders, closing dates you can move without a rebuild	Publishing and Environments
Monitor	Completed interviews against caps, quota cells that close when full, drop-off by page, data quality while the field is open, live tiles from your analysis	Live Monitoring
Data	The response database, instant insights, exports to CSV, Excel, SPSS, Stata, Parquet and SQLite, deletion for erasure requests	Responses and the Data Tab
Analyze	A canvas of engine nodes: cleaning, weighting, crosstabs, banner tables, tests you choose (t-tests, ANOVA with post-hoc, paired and exact tests, correlations), factor analysis, regression (ordinal too), key drivers, perceptual maps, price sensitivity, MaxDiff, conjoint, TURF, charts of the data and of each result, tracking trends, report tables and tab books in Excel — over your survey's responses, or a data file from elsewhere (CSV in any encoding, Excel, SPSS, Stata, Parquet, a Qualtrics export) read as it comes	Analysis Flows
Report	Documents built from the flow with your own text, a report theme, HTML and print-to-PDF, public live dashboards	Reports
Keep	Numbered versions of the whole project, diffs, restore, pre-registration, Zenodo / OSF deposits, research bundles	History and Versions

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Who it is for

• Academic researchers and students — build the instrument and the analysis without code, then attach the .py and the labeled .sav to the paper.
• Small research and marketing agencies — one per-organization price, the whole study in one project, a report and a bundle for the client.
• UX, CX and product teams — live dashboards from the analysis, exports to your warehouse through connectors.
• Methods teachers — every step has a Download .py, so students can see exactly how a questionnaire becomes data and a table.

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Where Studio sits in the Siamang family

siamang            the engine: a source-available Python library — questionnaire model,
   │               compiler, survey runtime, analysis, reports       → Library section of this wiki
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   └── Siamang Studio   a visual survey platform: everything by mouse,
                        code included as a download                      → this section

Studio is built on the engine. In Studio you never see or edit code — you download it. If you later want to work with that code directly, the downloaded questionnaire.py and flow scripts are ordinary programs for the siamang library.

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How to read this guide

The pages are ordered as a study unfolds; the sidebar follows the same order.

• New to Studio? Quick Start (twenty minutes), then Key Concepts.
• Want the whole journey on one realistic study? Tutorial: A Study from Start to Finish.
• Want to see a finished study first? Start a project from the example study, Digital Life & Wellbeing 2026: a questionnaire that uses every question type but one, 729 sample responses and six analysis flows — cleaning and weighting, key tables, screen use, wellbeing scales and drivers, an app idea (MaxDiff, TURF, prices, an A/B message) and segments — each with its report.
• Looking for how to do one thing? Recipes and FAQ and Troubleshooting.

Conventions

• Bold marks buttons and screen labels exactly as they appear.
• Monospace marks things you type or see verbatim — file names, variable names, URLs, codes.
• (Plus), (Pro), (Corporate) after a feature means it needs that plan or higher. During the Pro trial everything marked (Plus) and (Pro) is available.
• Save with a capital S means a numbered project version (#17), not just pressing a button. See Key Concepts.
• Ctrl/Cmd means Cmd on macOS and Ctrl elsewhere.

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All pages

Get started

• Quick Start — from sign-up to your first responses and your first table
• Key Concepts — organizations, projects, Saves, deployments, flows
• Tutorial: A Study from Start to Finish — one realistic study, every stage

Account & workspace

• Sign Up and Sign In — accounts, email confirmation, Google, passwords, invitations
• Account and Profile — profile, appearance, API keys, support
• Organizations and Team — workspaces, roles, invitations, organization settings, audit log
• Projects — creating projects, templates, the projects list, Saves and drafts
• Project Settings — name, citation metadata, runtime, environments, secrets, danger zone
• Plans, Trial and Billing — what each plan includes, the trial, limits

Build the questionnaire

• The Builder — the screen, pages, blocks, questions, the inspector, saving
• Question Types — every type and preset, and every option
• Codebook and Variables — scales, value labels, missing codes
• Logic and Branching — conditions, show/hide, skip, branch rules, piping, the Logic map
• Quotas and Randomization — quota cells, shuffles, experimental assignment
• MaxDiff and Conjoint — choice designs from build to analysis
• Theme and Branding — the survey's look, wording, the organization's house style
• Scripts — the behavior library and custom JavaScript
• Importing Questionnaires — Qualtrics, LimeSurvey, SurveyJS, JSON and Python
• Question Bank, Templates and Library — reuse standard and your own material
• Testing Your Survey — validation, preview, walkthrough, simulation, share links
• AI Assistant — reviews, rewrites, answer options, drafts from a brief

Fieldwork

• Publishing and Environments — publish, pause, close, closing dates, response caps, republish, roll back
• Links, QR Codes, Embeds and Access Control — sharing the survey and restricting who answers
• Panel Providers — Prolific, Respondent, Cint, Dynata and custom panels
• Email Invitations — contacts, personal links, reminders, unsubscribes
• What Respondents See — the survey from the other side
• Live Monitoring — fieldwork monitor, live tiles, public dashboards

Data

• Responses and the Data Tab — tables, columns, searching every row, insights, deleting a response
• Data Exports — every format and what it carries
• Data Quality — attention checks, speeders, straightliners, captcha flags

Analysis & output

• Analysis Flows — the canvas, renaming and deleting flows, running, scheduling, live mode
• Node Reference — every node and every parameter
• Cleaning and Weighting Data — preparing data the documented way
• Coding Open Answers — codeframes: open answers coded by hand and by word rules, with no model
• Reports — composing, styling, downloading, printing
• History and Versions — Saves, diffs, restore, Methods, pre-registration, deposits
• Reproducibility: Code, Bundles and Citation — Download .py, the research bundle, citing

Integrations & administration

• Files — uploads and run outputs
• Connectors — Sheets, Excel 365, warehouses, storage, CRM
• Schedules and Webhooks — automation and notifications
• API and API Keys — scripting Studio
• Working Together — edit locks, following a colleague, comments, save conflicts
• Security and Privacy — where data lives, respondent privacy, ethics

Reference

• Recipes — step-by-step solutions to common tasks
• Limits and Quotas at a Glance
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• FAQ and Troubleshooting
• Glossary

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Getting help

• In the app: avatar menu → Documentation opens this wiki; Profile → Support links to examples, the issue tracker and feature requests.
• Email: support@siamang-team.org — include the organization slug, the project slug and the Save number; that is usually enough to reproduce anything.
• Legal: Terms of Use · Privacy Policy

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