I conducted a brainstorming session using the affinity diagram template but I’m having trouble decoding the results. Export gives me a flat list rather than a hierarchy. Is there any way to select a box and see all the connected sub-boxes? People drew lines to link things into clusters but I can’t follow the lines easily. Am I missing some tool to make this simple? As it stands, the Affinity Diagraming tool doesn’t work much like affinity diagraming in real life.
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Essentially you could apply tags that have the same names as your diagram’s quadrants to the sticky notes in those quadrants and then use Clusterizer to visualize the relationships.
I expect, however, that something that calls itself an affinity diagraming tool has functionality that bears at least a passing resemblance to the way that affinity diagraming works in person. The beauty of a classic affinity diagram is that the individuals all move stickies into clusters and you can see what has been clustered together--and the names for the clusters emerge from the contents of what has been grouped together. I see no way to get there from the tool. I had people use arrows to draw relationships from the lower tiers to the higher tiers but a one-dimensional export doesn’t allow me to see those created relationships. What am I missing?
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Are we talking about:
- Affinity Diagramming Template or…
- Clusterizer (which mentions affinity clustering in description)
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