Practices

There are a number of essential practices which most influence mapping project apply along the way.


We've organised these practices in a way that allow you to find more by looking at existing project documentation and relevant tools that can be used in the context of this practice.

Plan

When you get started on a project it's usually an intuition or a question that guides you, but to achieve your goals, a little bit of planning goes a long way.



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Collect

There's a lot of data out there asking the right questions and knowing when you need to organise your own data collection takes experience.



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Relevant tools Tools that can be used for Collecting Data



Organise

Investigating, analysing and finding more about your problem goes hand in hand with how you organise and structure your data. It determines how your project is experienced by your audience but it will also have a lot of impact on the type of technology you'll need.



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Relevant tools Tools that can be used for Organising Data



Publish

Putting your story out there is when it can be able to create impact. But with data stories, allowing others to build on your result can be the difference between satisfying accolades by your peers and actual real world impact.



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Relevant tools Tools that can be used for Publishing Data