Causal Map 3 Guide

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Welcome! This is the guide to Causal Map 3 (main server, development server).
 
Causal Map 3 - the Guide
0: Overview 0
1: Getting started
2: Uploading and data management
3: Coding
4: Analysis
5: Coding with AI
6: Technical reference
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In the pages in this section you will learn how to get started with Causal Map: what kind of device you need, how to access Causal Map for free, and finding your way around the app.
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Tooltips, Help button and Support chat
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Causal Map 3 has a more user-friendly interface with many new features that will make your user experience faster, smoother and more enjoyable.
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Theory
An overview of what is causal mapping for you to understand how to use the Causal Map App better.
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A causal map consists of boxes (which we call “factors”) joined by arrows (which we call “links”).
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So, you’re getting excited about creating maps – but is your project right for it?
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You will learn: • How to do causal mapping with Excel • How to upload causal mapping data from your own Excel file to Causal Map where you can analyse it and visualise the data. Remember that uploading and analysing data in Causal Map is completely free: you only need a subscription for using the Causal Map interface for coding your data.
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The app is tested on Chrome and Firefox on Mac and Windows, and Safari on Mac, and the new Edge on Windows, and it should work fine on Chrome, Chromium and Firefox on Linux.
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The app is tested on Chrome and Firefox on Mac and Windows, and Safari on Mac, and the new Edge on Windows, and it should work fine on Chrome, Chromium and Firefox on Linux.
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To use the app, you’ll need an account. What account you need depends on what you want to do.
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What to do when someone has shared a file with you
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Let’s have a look around the Causal Map app.
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Gather the data, Code, Analyse
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These filters determine which statements are used in the maps, in the tables, to display the text of the corresponding statements
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You first use
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Statements Filters
to select which statements you want to look at
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These filters determine which statements are used in the maps, in the tables, to display the text of the corresponding statements
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A print-quality version of the map with advanced layout.
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A print-quality version of the map with advanced layout.
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You will find all the tables under the table tab at the top of your screen.
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Show or hide panels, Fullscreen view of tables and maps, Tricks for dropdowns, Delete one item, Delete multiple items, Edit and item, Delete the first and subsequent items using the keyboard
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Show or hide panels, Fullscreen view of tables and maps, Tricks for dropdowns, Delete one item, Delete multiple items, Edit and item, Delete the first and subsequent items using the keyboard
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Show or hide panels, Fullscreen view of tables and maps, Tricks for dropdowns, Delete one item, Delete multiple items, Edit and item, Delete the first and subsequent items using the keyboard
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You can create your own file by copying an existing file or by creating a new file.
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The app creates an uncoded example file for you. You can find it in the dropdown menu, it has a name like example-file-uncoded-your-email-address.
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Oh no! I’ve messed something up! Don’t worry, the app is continuously saving your work, every 10 minutes, and so you can restore your file to any prevision version, by clicking this icon
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With these two buttons you can download your data in Excel (.xlsx) format.
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How to manage your data, whether it is downloading, modifying or appending? These bulletpoints will direct you to the relevant sections later in this Guide.
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How to manage your data, whether it is downloading, modifying or appending? These bulletpoints will direct you to the relevant sections later in this Guide.
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How to manage your data, whether it is downloading, modifying or appending? These bulletpoints will direct you to the relevant sections later in this Guide.
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How to manage your data, whether it is downloading, modifying or appending? These bulletpoints will direct you to the relevant sections later in this Guide.
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This button allows you to permanently merge another file into the current file.
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Getting help with Causal Map
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Overview page of the Causal Map 3 app.
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In the pages in this section you will learn basic coding with Causal Map.
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Qualitative causal mapping involves taking passages of text, e.g. from interviews or documents, and identifying sections which make causal claims.
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Qualitative causal mapping involves taking passages of text, e.g. from interviews or documents, and identifying sections which make causal claims.
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Qualitative causal mapping involves taking passages of text, e.g. from interviews or documents, and identifying sections which make causal claims.
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Qualitative causal mapping involves taking passages of text, e.g. from interviews or documents, and identifying sections which make causal claims.
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Many people like to start coding simply by choosing whatever factor labels occur to them, as far as possible using text directly taken from the statements they are coding. That’s one good way to start.
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hierarchical coding; factor labels; simplifying; causal maps; hierarchies; zooming out; semi-colons
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hierarchical factors; Causal Map 3; labels; zooming out; links
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autocomplete; factor labels; hierarchical coding;
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The formulation of factor labels should fit the intended interpretation of the causal links.
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Hierarchical coding is one way to bring some order to a whole crowd of factors. However, sometimes you don’t want to think in terms of a strict hierarchy, or maybe you have an additional set of themes which cut across that hierarchy.
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Qualitative causal mapping involves taking passages of text, e.g. from interviews or documents, and identifying sections which make causal claims.
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This info provides important information about context which you may need to refer to during coding.
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Causal mapping is very flexible and accommodates different philosophies or ways of coding. However, it’s good to be aware of this flexibility and perhaps avoid mixing philosophies.
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Causal mapping doesn’t usually deal with the kind of non-causal themes which are the focus of ordinary QDA (like in NVivo!). However sometimes it can be really useful to be able to simply note the presence of something without any causal connection.
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First of all, there’s nothing to worry about, it’s fun! The versioning / backups feature means you can always go back to any version of your file at any earlier time point.
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In the pages in this section you will learn how to do basic analysis in Causal Map: how to produce maps and tables to answer your research questions.
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Analysing a file means • applying different filters to it, to focus on different parts of the entire causal map in order to answer different questions • viewing the results in different ways by clicking on different tabs in the right hand side to view maps and tables.
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The Library allows you to save and share views of your data.
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maps; screenshotting; report;
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transforms-filters
You can show the paths from one or more specific factors within your map to a different set of factors.
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You can focus on just one or more specific factors within your map (and the factors directly linked to them).
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If you use curved or square brackets around your hashtags, you can use this filter hide the hashtags for specific maps if desired.
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You can focus on just one or more specific factors within your map (and the factors directly linked to them).
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Often we have more labels that we really want. People like simple maps with 3-10 factors. 30 is about the maximum number you can possibly squeeze onto a map, and if you do you’ll not want more than 30 or 40 links
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formatters
If you enter some text in the box, any factors in the map whose labels contain that text will be coloured red.
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formatters
How can we compare different groups like districts, gender or questionnaire sections, within maps?
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How can we compare different groups like districts, gender or questionnaire sections, within maps?
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specific-tables
This table counts factors differently to the mentions table as it counts links rather than individual factor mentions.
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The sources table, when there are no filters applied or when viewing the preset filter Sources (basic), simply lists all of the respondents and any additional data collected about them (sex, age, location, education).
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The factors table presents the factors applied during coding.
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This table makes searching for a specific statement easy.
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This table is useful when looking at how many times factors have been mentioned in links.
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This table displays the text, ID, memo and map id for every question included in the questionnaire.
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The closed question table provides a summary of the responses to the closed questions asked at the end of each QuIP questionnaire domain.
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The Library allows you to save and share views of your data.
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On the next pages you will learn how to use AI to automatically analyse your data in Causal Map.
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This exciting new possibility to do auto coding at Causal Map. It’s invitation only at the moment.
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This exciting new possibility to do auto coding at Causal Map. It’s invitation only at the moment.
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This exciting new possibility to do auto coding at Causal Map. It’s invitation only at the moment.
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This exciting new possibility to do auto coding at Causal Map. It’s invitation only at the moment.
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This exciting new possibility to do auto coding at Causal Map. It’s invitation only at the moment.
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This section contains technical reference for the Causal Map app.
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fields; factors table; links table; sources table; questions table; mentions table
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conventions; formatting;
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glossary; terminology; causal mapping; causal links; bundle; Hierarchical coding
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tables; Causal Map; columns; links; sources; questions; statements
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functions; opensource R package; vignette
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Frequent Asked Questions.
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