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Guide to Causal Mapping

Table of contents

  • 1 Overview
  • Introduction
  • 2 Your first 5 minutes with Causal Map
  • 3 Just received an invite to view something in Causal Map?
  • 4 Moving to Causal Map 2 from Causal Map 1
  • 5 πŸ“š Are Causal Map and causal mapping for me?
  • 6 Features of Causal Map
  • 7 πŸ“š ⚑ Glossary
  • πŸ’» Getting Started
  • 8 Prerequisites for using the app
  • 9 ⚑ πŸ’» Signing up and signing in at Causal Map
  • 10 πŸ’» Collaborating at Causal Map
  • 11 ⚑ πŸ’» Quick tour of the app
  • 12 πŸ’» ⚑ FAQs: Causal Map questions and troubleshooting
  • πŸ’» The app, panel by panel
  • 13 ⚑ The top menu
  • 14 ⚑ Interactive View
  • 15 ⚑ Print view
  • 16 The Factor Editor
  • 17 All the tables
  • 18 The Mentions Table
  • 19 The Factors table
  • 20 The Links Table
  • 21 The Statements Table
  • 22 The Sources Table
  • 23 The Questions Table
  • 24 The Closed Question Blocks Table
  • 25 The Metrics Table
  • 26 πŸ’» The File Manager
  • 27 The Updates panel
  • 28 ⚑ The Statement Navigator
  • 29 ⚑ The Coding Panel: creating factors and links
  • πŸ’»Filters
  • 30 Introduction to filters
  • 31 Analysis
  • 32 πŸ“š Robustness: Quantifying causal evidence
  • 33 Conditional formats
  • 34 Simple formats
  • 35 Cluster formats
  • 36 Wrap factor/link labels
  • 37 Set print format
  • 38 What order to apply Causal Map filters?
  • πŸ“š What is Causal Mapping?
  • 39 πŸ“š Causal Mapping: Definitions
  • 40 πŸ“š Causal mapping for evaluators
  • Creating maps
  • 41 βš‘πŸ’» Top tips if you have just starting coding
  • 42 πŸ“š Creating good factor labels
  • 43 πŸ“š Simplifying causal maps with hierarchical coding
  • 44 πŸ’» Hierarchical factors in Causal Map
  • 45 πŸ“š Strength: Adding additional information like strength of a link in a causal map
  • 46 πŸ“š Coding opposites
  • Analysing maps
  • 47 Analysing maps: Overview
  • 48 πŸ“š Analysis: comparing maps between particular groups
  • 49 πŸ“š Tricky coding challenges
  • πŸ’» Uploading and updating data
  • 51 πŸ’»βš‘ How to upload and update your data
  • 52 πŸ’» Core tables in Causal Map
  • 53 πŸ’» Uploading your data
  • 54 πŸ’» Additional data
  • 55 πŸ’» Appending and fixing data (β€œroundtripping”)
  • 56 πŸ’» Importing your data: special cases
  • Spotlights
  • 57 πŸ“š Spotlight: Causal Mapping and Outcome Harvesting
  • 58 πŸ“š Spotlight: Context in causal mapping: how to code it
  • 59 πŸ“š Spotlight: Beware the transitivity trap
  • 60 πŸ“š Spotlight: Compatible and incompatible factors in storylines
  • 61 πŸ“š Spotlight: Cases, variables and percentages in causal mapping?
  • 62 πŸ“š Spotlight: Different kinds of question chaining, with QuIP and ParEvo as illustrations
  • 63 πŸ“š Spotlight: The last minute principle
  • 64 πŸ“š Causal maps, systems maps, what’s the difference? Does it matter?
  • 65 πŸ“š Spotlight: Coding time in causal mapping
  • 66 πŸ“š Spotlight: Puzzles in causal mapping
  • 67 πŸ“š Spotlight: Is one direction enough?
  • 68 Showcase: how the Causal Map app has been used
  • Technical reference
  • 69 πŸ’» How Causal Map is hosted
  • 70 πŸ’» Custom reports (admin only)
  • 71 πŸ’» Using the Advanced Editor to create and edit filters
  • 72 πŸ’» Keyboard shortcuts for the Factor Editor and Advanced Editor
  • 73 Causal Map functions
  • 74 Causal mapping with Excel
  • Final section
  • 75 Acknowledgements
  • 76 Appendix: Publications and links
  • References

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36 Wrap factor/link labels

Changing the wrap length of your labels can help make your map clearer and easier to read. As with other sliders, you might find it helpful to keep the filter panel open whilst you select your label length!Click on the wrap factor/link labels buttons to open their respective filter panels. Simply adjust the slider to your chosen length for your labels. img
35 Cluster formats
37 Set print format

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"Guide to Causal Mapping" was written by Steve Powell & Causal Map Ltd. It was last built on 2021-11-30.

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