Chart Types for Open Ended Questions

Open-ended responses hold a wealth of insight. Panoplai provides multiple visualization tools to help you surface themes, sentiment, emotion, and patterns quickly.

Available Visualizations & Data Points

• Sentiment Analysis: Sentiment can be either self-reported by participants or AI-inferred.

  • See whether responses trend:

• • • Positive

    • Negative

    • Neutral

    • Mixed

• Emotion Wheel: Explore which emotions respondents associate with their answers (Either self-reported or AI-inferred)

• Key Phrases: Key Phrases group commonly used words and phrases across responses. Use this view to identify recurring language patterns.

  • Display key phrases as a tree map, table, or word cloud. 
  • Adjust how many phrases shown (Top 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50) across views.

  • Hide specific key phrases to refine what appears in the word cloud, giving you more control over how the results are presented.

• AI Topics: Responses are automatically grouped into adjustable thematic clusters, helping you to quantify and explore qualitative feedback at scale. 
  • Display AI Topics as a tree map, table, or bar chart.  
  • Learn more about AI Topics here.

• Individual Verbatim Comments: Each open-ended response appears in a sortable table, complete with key phrase and ai topics "codes", sentiment, and emotion tags — making it easy to scan, quote, or deep dive into specific feedback.