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Capability Map

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Build a ‘first pass’ capability map by typing in a search term that could be said to represent a broad research capability.

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+ Welcome to the Capability Mapping tool. + This tool visualises how researchers relate to other + researchers via search terms. +

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Getting Started

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+ Enter a research area into the search field above and press ‘Search’. + The resulting diagram displays the search term, rendered in orange, + connected to the blue group of researchers that are active in that area. + Enter another search term to see how researchers from both searches relate. + Keep adding search terms to build a capability map. +

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+ Tip: you can expand a broad search term into smaller concepts + by clicking ‘search and expand’. +

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Interacting with the visualisation

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+ By clicking on any node in the visualisation, + additional information can be viewed in the + ‘Info’ tab on the right-hand side. + For groups of people, the participants in the group + and their information can be viewed, + and individual researchers can be removed from the graph. + Selecting a search term will display all attached groups. + Under each group full information for each person is retrieved, + and the number of matching grants and publications + for each researcher within the mapped capabilities is shown. + Clicking on a researcher's name will lead to the original search + results. +

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+ To make the visualisation easier to read, + search terms and groups are scaled according + to the number of results returned. + Groups are also given different shades + according to the number of connected search terms. + The darker the shade, the more search terms a group is connected to. +

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Advanced features

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Changing the cutoff value

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+ The amount of researchers retrieved for each search term + for is limited by the cutoff value in the search form + (10 by default). + Increasing this cutoff will increase the likelihood + of an intersection between different search terms. + This will also increase the complexity of the graph, + however, and may make it difficult to identify patterns. +

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Current search terms

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  • This panel displays a list of the search terms currently + on the graph. Search for something to begin.
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+ This panel displays information about individual + search terms and groups. Click on a group to display + its information. +

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