True Causes compared with Pol.is, Stanford, Harvard’s Frankly, Kialo, Loomio, Decidim and Miro

True Causes compared

How True Causes, an online deliberation platform for root cause analysis, differs from the tools it is most often weighed against: what each one is for, and when to use the other one instead. Root cause analysis is its main use; the same method also makes other kinds of map (steps in order, claims and reasons, evidence, weighing options, priorities), and the pages say where those overlap with the other tools.

Online Deliberation Platforms Compared: Features Side by Side

True Causes, Pol.is, the Stanford Online Deliberation Platform, Frankly, Kialo, Loomio, Decidim and Miro in one table: what each produces, how people take part, moderation, scale, data, open source and cost.

Online deliberation formats, drawn: an illustrated guide

Eight ways a group can think together online, from opinion mapping and argument trees to participatory budgeting and Structured Democratic Dialogue, each drawn as the mechanism it runs on: what goes in, what comes out, where disagreement goes.

True Causes vs Pol.is: finding agreement, or finding causes

Pol.is maps what a large crowd agrees and disagrees on. True Causes maps what causes what. How the two differ, and when to use each or both.

True Causes vs the Stanford Online Deliberation Platform

Stanford's platform runs Deliberative Polling in moderated video groups and measures considered opinion. True Causes maps what causes what. How they differ and fit together.

True Causes vs Frankly, Harvard's dialogue platform

Frankly, from Harvard's Applied Social Media Lab, is an open-source video platform for structured dialogue. True Causes turns a group's thinking into a voted map of causes. How they differ.

True Causes vs Kialo: a tree of pros and cons, or a map the group votes on

Kialo lays out the pros and cons of one thesis as a tree. True Causes maps causes, and, as one of its kinds of map, claims and reasons, with every link voted by the group. How they differ and when to use each.

True Causes vs Loomio: making a decision, or understanding the problem first

Loomio helps a group discuss and decide. True Causes helps a group work out what the problem actually is. How they differ and when to use each.

True Causes vs Decidim: a participation platform, or one method inside it

Decidim is a full open-source platform for citizen participation. True Causes is a method for finding causes with the people affected. How they relate.

True Causes vs Miro: a fishbone on a whiteboard, or a map the group votes on

Miro offers fishbone and five-whys templates on a shared whiteboard. True Causes is a method in which each cause-and-effect link is decided by the group. How they differ.

For root cause analysis methods (five whys, fishbone, fault tree), see methods compared.