🌻 The left and right panels
The app uses a two-pane layout with a draggable border between them (default split 30:70).
The left hand side of the app is all about selecting sources then creating and filtering links.
The right hand side (the pink tabs) is all about presenting the results.
Left-hand side#
- Project Dropdown Menu: select a project including its links and documents
- Sources Dropdown Menu: choose one or more sources. (Leaving it empty includes all sources).
- Create Links tab: Read and code the text of the selected source(s). If multiple sources are selected, the first is shown.
- Filter Links tab: Do qualitative causal analyseis on the selected links by filtering and manipulating them.
The Links Pipeline#
The diagram shows the Links Pipeline: The top four boxes here correspond to the left side of the app and are called the "Links Pipeline": each step selects and filters links. The resulting links are then displayed in the pink output tabs on the right side.
graph TD
A["📁 Select Project"] --> B["📄 Select Sources (Documents)"]
B --> C["🔗 Extract Links (Causal relationships)"]
C --> D["🔍 Apply Analysis Filters (Factor labels, paths, etc.)"]
D --> E["📊 Display Results"]
E --> F["🗺️ Map (Network visualization)"]
E --> G["🏷️ Factors Table (Causes & effects)"]
E --> H["🔗 Links Table (Relationships)"]
E --> I["📈 Pivot Tables (Charts & analysis)"]
style A fill:#e1f5fe
style B fill:#f3e5f5
style C fill:#fff3e0
style D fill:#e8f5e8
style E fill:#fce4ec
style F fill:#fff9c4
style G fill:#fff9c4
style H fill:#fff9c4
style I fill:#fff9c4
Right-hand side (pink tabs)#
- Outputs: these all show the same filtered links from the Links Pipeline but in different formats
- Map: visual network of links
- Factors: editable factor list (toggle available to bypass analysis filters)
- Links: editable links table (toggle available to bypass analysis filters)
- Pivot Tables: additional analysis and charts
Right-hand side (other tabs)#
The right-hand side also contains other tabs not influenced by the pipeline: