Theory Maker! July 27, 2020 r & software & theorymaker & evaluation & mande & Theorymaker “A theory of change for our project!” “Great, but so fiddly to actually draw.” Theory Maker is designed to meet this need. Theory Maker is a Answering the “why” question: piecing together multiple pieces of causal information July 27, 2020 Theorymaker & causal-mapping ((This is an abstract I just submitted to the 2019 DGeval conference in Bonn.)) We evaluators often ask questions about what causes what — because Progress on the Causal Map app March 30, 2020 evaluation & theorymaker & causalmapping & causal-mapping I’ve been working more or less full-time on our app for causal mapping, now called simply “Causal Map” for over a year now. You can find out more on Articles and presentations related to Causal Maps and Theorymaker March 26, 2020 evaluation & theorymaker & visualisation Here are some things I’ve already written as steps on the road to understanding causal mapping. If you’ve read any of these, you might be interested Welcome to the Wiggle Room August 29, 2018 evaluation & theorymaker & visualisation Inspired by Judea Pearl’s new “The Book of Why”, and also by Nicky Case’s work on explorables, I’ve started work on a explorable web app. Pearl A panel on visualising Theories of Change for EES 2018? January 11, 2018 evaluation & theorymaker & visualisation I am thinking of getting together a panel presentation on this topic for The European Evaluation Society conference in Greece 1-5 October 2018: Links for my AEA eval2017 presentation, Washington DC October 18, 2017 evaluation & research & theorymaker AEA program listing. A short post here on this blog The book is not an easy read But there is an Epilogue right at the back of the book which Showing developments over time in a Theory of Change: Unicode Sparklines ▇▆▅▃▂ September 21, 2017 Theorymaker Sometimes in Theories of Change it is very useful to be able to present simple developments over time, for example an increase or decrease or How to make Theory of Change diagrams with Theorymaker February 15, 2016 theorymaker Each line in the text box is one variable in the graph. A variable is any factor in your theory of change - something which could be different. Causal diagrams and Theory Maker: left-to-right? bottom-up? top-down? February 14, 2016 Theorymaker & TheoryMaker There is an interesting discussion going on at LinkedIn about Theory Maker. One commenter asked why Theorymaker presents things left-to-right. This The theory behind theories of change February 11, 2016 theorymaker This essay will look at the theory behind theories of change. First of all it is a quick introduction to my forthcoming book provisionally entitled Theory Maker and markdown February 8, 2016 r & software & evaluation & mande & markdown & Theorymaker & theorymaker Theory Maker is a free and simple web app for making diagrams of theories of change etc. I already wrote about it. Its special feature is that you The grammar of Theory Maker February 8, 2016 Theorymaker & theorymaker This is a quick summary. There are more details and examples here. Every line is either blank or defines a variable or a box. Just type characters: Theory Maker - technical details November 12, 2015 r & software & theorymaker & evaluation & mande Theory Maker is a free and simple web app for making diagrams of theories of change, logframes, etc. Its special feature is that you can also create Theory Maker - technical details November 12, 2015 r & software & theorymaker & evaluation & mande Theory Maker is a free and simple web app for making diagrams of theories of change, logframes, etc. Its special feature is that you can also create