Chart Types for Open Ended Questions
Open-ended responses hold a wealth of insight — and Panoplai makes it easy to surface themes, emotion, and patterns with just a few clicks.
Available Visualizations & Data Points
- Sentiment Analysis: See whether responses trend positive, negative, neutral, or mixed (Either self-reported or AI-inferred)
- Automated Open End Coding (Tree Map): Responses are automatically grouped into adjustable thematic clusters, helping you to quantify and explore qualitative feedback at scale.
- Rectangle Size = Frequency, The larger the rectangle, the more frequently it was mentioned.
- Rectangle Color = Sentiment, Where green = positive, red = negative, purple = mixed, and blue = neutral.
- Search = Look for a verbatim in the Tree Map to see where it's classified.
- Sorting = Organize your data by record type, name, or sentiment.
- Direction Toggle = Order from low to high or vice versa to find outliers and trends.
- Tree Map vs. Table Toggle = Switch between the visual and tabular views.
- Emotion Wheel: Explore which emotions respondents associate with their answers (Either self-reported or AI-inferred)
- Word Clouds: Get a fast snapshot of dominant terms across all open-ended responses — ideal for early theme spotting or presentation visuals.
- Individual Verbatim Comments: Each open-ended response appears in a sortable table, complete with codes, sentiment, and emotion tags — making it easy to scan, quote, or deep dive into specific feedback.