Steve Powell

Steve Powell

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Take responsibility: Another DO and another DON’T when using AI for text analysis.

Jan 16, 2025

🤔 Can we solve all or some of our evaluation and research questions by just delegating them to an AI? In this second post in a series of AI Do's and Don'ts, Steve Powell argues how wrong this picture is.

Open-source causal mapping functions

Jan 18, 2024

Over the last three years we have developed a whole range of algorithms for causal mapping. The algorithms are published open-source in the form of functions for the programming language R.

Why do causal mapping rather than ordinary QDA?

Nov 11, 2023

I've got a load of texts to analyse, can I use Causal Map just for standard Qualitative Data Analysis, like ordinary thematic analysis, to identify important themes?