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Other Tools and Apps

Other Tools and Apps

A collection of free tools and 3rd-party web apps that can be used to visualize your mental model skyline data, some suggested by people who have worked with the Data Science that Listens system.

Dovetail Ideas and Workarounds

Created by Kyle Bowen and Kristi Leach

Two-level nesting is possible in Dovetail, as is drawing groups on the Insight Canvas to built towers. Read some suggestions and experiment.


Suggestions document →
Go to Dovetail platform →

a mental model diagram pasted into a Mural Canvas, as an image. It has been broken up so that rectangles representing the Neighborhoods can appear behind sections.
Miro

Miro allows you to create stickies & boxes and arrange them how you want. If your dataset is small, this manual approach is a viable option.

Miro: This is the opposite of how we usually work, but … Mappl.io lets you convert stickies to tables and then export to CSV.


Go to Miro platform →

Coda.io

Suggested by Kyle Bowen

Kyle: I rely pretty heavily on Coda.io for problem-spacey projects. On the surface, Coda looks like a doc solution, but it does some pretty amazing stuff with databases.


Go to Coda platform →

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