Sue Pertwee-Tyr
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Hi, all providers of collective pfm wisdom. I have a project to complete for work which includes a 'landscape review' of a complex and interconnected area. I'm thinking of creating a mind map, or similar, to visualise and present my findings. I think I know what I want to be able to do, but haven't the first idea what software I might need or want to use. Is there anybody in the pfm hive mind with any experience of this sort of thing?
To give you an example of what I'd like to do, I'll use a musical equivalent to illustrate it, though this isn't the actual task:
Imagine you want to create a wide ranging survey of musical types and genres. So below the generic top-line 'bubble' called 'Music' (I'm imagining a sort of Venn diagram bubble, but not overlapping, but instead interconnected to 'sub-bubbles' which would become visible only as you scroll or zoom in). So, you'd have a few key genres, 'Classical', 'Jazz', 'Rock', 'Folk' etc, etc, in a series of bubbles connected back to the Music one.
Delving into 'Jazz', you'd then scroll/zoom in and see subgenres branching off that, like 'Trad', 'Bebop', 'Fusion', etc, etc. And zooming in on Fusion, say, you'd then branch off into Artists, so a veritable forest of bubbles, people like Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorius, etc. Scroll/zoom in again on those to see the albums, and zoom in again to see the fellow artistes performing on them. And those artistes would also be in the form of hyperlinks, back to their own entries on the map (and, maybe, a bit of metadata to show some key facts in a yellow box when you mouse over the link).
Is this do-able and, if so, is there software that allows people to do it, at modest expense (I can't install on my work machine, so would have to buy it myself and export the output).
As to the exporting, it'd have to export as a common file type, say .pdf. And it'd be helpful if it could input/import from a spreadsheet (we use Excel - Office 365).
Thanks for reading this far! Any suggestions?
To give you an example of what I'd like to do, I'll use a musical equivalent to illustrate it, though this isn't the actual task:
Imagine you want to create a wide ranging survey of musical types and genres. So below the generic top-line 'bubble' called 'Music' (I'm imagining a sort of Venn diagram bubble, but not overlapping, but instead interconnected to 'sub-bubbles' which would become visible only as you scroll or zoom in). So, you'd have a few key genres, 'Classical', 'Jazz', 'Rock', 'Folk' etc, etc, in a series of bubbles connected back to the Music one.
Delving into 'Jazz', you'd then scroll/zoom in and see subgenres branching off that, like 'Trad', 'Bebop', 'Fusion', etc, etc. And zooming in on Fusion, say, you'd then branch off into Artists, so a veritable forest of bubbles, people like Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorius, etc. Scroll/zoom in again on those to see the albums, and zoom in again to see the fellow artistes performing on them. And those artistes would also be in the form of hyperlinks, back to their own entries on the map (and, maybe, a bit of metadata to show some key facts in a yellow box when you mouse over the link).
Is this do-able and, if so, is there software that allows people to do it, at modest expense (I can't install on my work machine, so would have to buy it myself and export the output).
As to the exporting, it'd have to export as a common file type, say .pdf. And it'd be helpful if it could input/import from a spreadsheet (we use Excel - Office 365).
Thanks for reading this far! Any suggestions?