sdstudio
A Companion Package for Designing
and Managing surveydown Surveys

Pingfan Hu
George Washington University

GW OSCON 2026

About Me

• Pingfan Hu, PhD Candidate at George Washington University, advised by Dr. John Helveston.

• Research interests:

  1. Data Science in sustainable transportation and human behavior
  2. Open-Source Software in tools for survey research
  3. Agentic AI Engineering around Claude Code

• For more information, visit pingfanhu.com

WYSIWYG Interface

Why not make surveys from code?

Limitations
Features

✅ Reproducibility

✅ Version control

✅ Lots of features

✅ Open source

Introducing surveydown!

Survey design using Quarto and Shiny

survey.qmd

---
survey-settings:
  use-cookies: true
  rate-survey: false
---

```{r}
library(surveydown)
```

--- welcome

# Welcome to `surveydown`!

```{r}
sd_question(
  type  = "mc",
  id    = "has_fav_hero",
  label = "Do you have a favorite superhero?",
  option = c(
    "Yes" = "yes",
    "No"  = "no"
  )
)
```

--- some_other_page

Other content...

Rendered Survey

But…

Introducing sdstudio!

Studio Workflow

Launch with a simple command

sdstudio::launch()

Landing Page

Start with a Template

surveydown.org/templates

Choose Your Directory

The Build Tab

The Preview Tab

The Responses Tab

The Responses Tab - Continued

Studio Features

Self-explanatory Icons

Editing

GUI - Toggling

GUI - Content Editing

GUI - Content Addition

GUI - Page Addition

GUI - Page Relocation

GUI - Content Relocation

Script Editing

Instant Preview

Views

Desktop and Mobile Views

Responses

Local Responses

Database Responses

Database Responses

Database Responses

Database Responses

Database Responses

sdstudio gives you…

surveydown + sdstudio

Ways to help:

github.com/surveydown-dev/sdstudio/

• Try it out!
• Give it a ⭐
• Post an issue
• Join the GitHub discussion
• Contribute new features

Meet the team!

John Helveston, Ph.D.

Pingfan Hu

Bogdan Bunea

surveydown.org