Comparisons Module - Collective Insight Comparator
Create Comparison Items, group them in a Comparison Cycle, and let users choose between them two at a time to find the community's favourites.
What is this module about?
The Comparisons module collects the preferences of the people who use your platform. Users compare items head to head, and the results show which items the community prefers. You can use it to:
Make informed decisions, by comparing options based on collective preferences.
Run market studies, to understand which choices are most popular.
If you see Comparisons in the backoffice side menu, the module is active for your organisation. It has two pages: Comparisons Items and Comparison Cycles.
Creating a Comparison Item
To run a comparison you first need items to compare.
Go to Comparisons > Comparisons Items.
Click New Comparison Item.
Fill in the Title and Description and upload an Image. The image is shown when the item is compared. All three are required.
Click Create.
In the list, use Quick Edit to change an item or Delete to remove it.
Creating a Comparison Cycle
A Comparison Cycle defines which items are compared and the period in which users can vote.
Go to Comparisons > Comparison Cycles.
Click New Comparison Cycle.
Fill in the Title and Description, and choose the Start date and End date, including the time.
In Comparison Items, add at least one item to the cycle. You can manage the items later from the cycle page.
Click Create.
The list shows the Status of each cycle: Draft, Scheduled, Open or Closed. You can filter the list by status.
Editing a cycle and managing its items
Click the cycle name to open the cycle page. There you can Edit or Delete the cycle. You can also use Quick Edit directly in the list.
The Start date can only be changed before the cycle starts.
The End date can no longer be changed after the cycle closes.
To change the items being compared, open the Items in this cycle tab:
Click Add Items and pick one or more items. Items can't be added to a closed cycle.
Use Remove from cycle to take an item out of the cycle.
The results
The results are on the cycle page, in two tabs:
Leaderboard lists each participant and their Elected Item. Participants who have not finished show Unfinished. Click View votes to see each head-to-head choice the user made. Some choices are marked Inferred, because they were deduced from the user's other choices by logical conjunction.
Performance ranks the items with their Ranking, # Elected, # Participants and Score. It is only available after the cycle ends.
What will my users see?
On the Comparisons page, users see the cycles available to them, with the status of each one:
When they open a cycle, they see how much time is left before it ends:
After they start, users are shown two items at a time and choose the one they prefer:
When they finish, users see their own ranking of the items. The global ranking is shown once the cycle ends.
