Using quizzes and comments as a sources of data

One often opverlooked way of sourcing data is to ask your own audience. If you publish a story on a subject, why not include a quiz or take note of comments below the fold to create a new dataset? When News24 published this piece investigating issues around average salaries for domestic workers, for example, it also asked its readers to share information about how much they paid for household services.

While this particular survey required some additional coding, you could use Google Forms to create a simple question or two to guage reader opinion on a subject.