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Guide to Causal Mapping
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Overview
💻 1: Getting Started
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Prerequisites for using the app
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Has someone shared a file with you?
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Want to do your own coding?
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📚 Are Causal Map and causal mapping for you?
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Your first 5 minutes with Causal Map
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The Statement Navigator
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Interactive View
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Print view
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All the tables
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🧪New tables
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FAQs: Causal Map questions and troubleshooting
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Video list
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📚 Glossary
Introduction
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Top tips if you have just starting coding
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Introduction to filters
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How to upload and update your data – Overview
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The Coding Panel: creating factors and links
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Creating a file
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Collaborating at Causal Map
💻 The rest of the app
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Quick tour of the app
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The top menu
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The Dashboard
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The File Manager
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The Factor Editor
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🧪The Factors table
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🧪The Mentions Table
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🧪The Links Table
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🧪The Statements Table
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🧪The Sources Table
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The Questions Table
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🧪The Questions Table
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🧪The Closed Question Blocks Table
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🧪The Metrics Table
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Data manager
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Document coding score!
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The Updates tab
📚💻 Creating maps
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📚 Creating good factor labels
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Editing factors and links
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📚 Simplifying causal maps with hierarchical coding
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💻 Hierarchical factors in Causal Map
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📚 Strength: Adding additional information like strength of a link in a causal map
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📚 Coding opposites
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📚 Plain coding
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📚 Tricky coding challenges
💻Filters
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Filters – overview
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📚 Tracing paths
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Continuity and tracing threads
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Conditional formats
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Simple formats
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What is the logic behind the Causal Map filters?
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Analysing causal maps
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Smart zooming
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Quickfields
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📚 Analysis: comparing maps between particular groups
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📚 Clustering sources
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Recalculate fields
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Interpreting your results
💻 Uploading and updating data
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Core tables in Causal Map
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Uploading your data
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Uploading additional data
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Appending and fixing data (“roundtripping”)
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Importing your data: special cases
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Merging files
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Importing a codebook of factors
📚💻Spotlights
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📚 Causal Mapping: Definitions
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📚 Causal mapping for evaluators
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📚 Causal Mapping and Outcome Harvesting
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📚 Context in causal mapping: how to code it
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📚 Beware the transitivity trap
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📚 Cases, variables and percentages in causal mapping?
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📚 Different kinds of question chaining, with QuIP and ParEvo as illustrations
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📚 How to get to the shadow side: a problem with back-chaining
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📚 The last minute principle
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📚 Causal maps, systems maps, what’s the difference? Does it matter?
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📚 Coding time in causal mapping
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More about coding opposites
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📚 Puzzles in causal mapping
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📚 Is one direction enough?
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Showcase: how the Causal Map app has been used
💻 Technical reference
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Appendix: Filter reference
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How Causal Map is hosted
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Conventions
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Screenshotting your maps
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Reports tab
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Using the Advanced Editor to create and edit filters
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Causal Map functions
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Causal mapping with Excel
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Using StorySurvey: admin interface
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Features of Causal Map
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Managing your subscription
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Recent changes
📚💻 Final section
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Acknowledgements
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Appendix: Publications and links
References
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Appendix: Filter reference
The list can be found here:
github
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Showcase: how the Causal Map app has been used
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How Causal Map is hosted
On this page
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Appendix: Filter reference
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