Dscout’s AI analysis identifies themes across responses in Express and Diary missions. Think of themes like categories used to group responses together or as tags that highlight commonalities. When initiated, AI analysis compiles a list of up to 20 themes based on participant responses and automatically applies them where applicable for easy filtering.

In Express missions, you’ll find a list of themes for open-ended, talk out loud, screen recording, and video questions under Questions on the Responses tab:

In Diary missions, you’ll find themes for open-ended, screen recording, and video questions on the Entries tab:

Click any theme to filter your view to only include relevant responses. To rename a theme, hover over it and click the pencil icon. Then, enter a new Theme title. Here, you can also delete any themes you don’t need.

In both Express and Diary, responses are also automatically tagged with the relevant themes:

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