Processed 400K responses, made front page news

Earlier this month, I posted about how we'd started a project with a customer of ours where they shared a survey embed on the front page of pretty much every major UK regional newspaper website. Here's a link with my excitement explosion in it.

That series of surveys appeared on crazy high volume websites taking us from 1.7M votes cast all time (a vote is an option chosen on a question) to 16M votes in under 5 days.

Overall, we collected 400K survey responses across 42 publications making this the biggest set of data about how Britons feel about lockdown policies of both the UK and Devolved governments in the UK (The UK actually has four governments).

Our customer wrote news articles about each of the surveys (there was one for each publication). These all made front page news too. Here's the one from the Liverpool Echo

Needless to say, all the graphs we use to monitor doopoll look insane. Check this one out of all time responses. The scale got auto-calculated in E numbers it's such rapid growth.

There's a lot more to say about this project in terms of engineering challenges that we faced and I hope that James, our product developer and all round superhuman, is going to write something about that before long.

Anyway, totally pumped as always