👩‍💻 Coding

You want to code your own data?

The workflow is usually like this:

GATHER THE DATA

Identify or collect a set of several reports or a set of several interviews from one or more sources.

Organise this narrative data into an Excel template in the form of paragraph-length chunks called statements. Or if your data is in the form of Word or PDF documents, you can upload this directly.

Optionally, upload metadata, e.g. date, name of source, perhaps gender, location, etc.

You can upload additional data and metadata later as you need it.

UPLOAD: Create a new empty file and upload the narrative data.

CODE:

HIGHLIGHT: View your data statement by statement, and highlight any causal claims within it, telling the app what is the cause (“influence”) and what is the effect (“consequence”) for each claim. We call this process “coding”.

ANALYSE: When you’ve coded a lot of causal claims, you can analyse them to make different kinds of maps and answer different research questions.

If you don’t have any data yet, don’t worry, we got you!

Start with an uncoded file:

Look for "example-file-uncoded-[your email]" in the file dropdown menu at the top of the app.

Use the left side of the app for coding:

This is where you'll create factors and links from the statements by highlighting the causal claim. A link creator box will pop-up on your screen.

Use the right side of the app for analysis:

Once your coding is done, you can use the different tabs and filters to help analysing your maps.

You want to code your own data?