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Research & Academic diagram templates
PRISMA, CONSORT, concept map, causal loop, DAG, theory of change.
Event-Storming Board
Domain-event sticky-note board (orange-events / blue-commands / yellow-actors).
WeaveEmpathy Map — Blank Persona
User at centre, 4 quadrants: Says · Thinks · Does · Feels.
WeaveMind map (radial)
Central topic with branching ellipse sub-topics and note leaves.
WeaveStoryboard / wireframe flow
Six panels with a brief beneath each — common for UX walkthroughs.
WeaveAffinity diagram (research synthesis)
Themed columns of sticky notes grouping raw interview quotes.
WeaveFishbone (Ishikawa) diagram
Cause-and-effect skeleton with 6M bones: Machine · Method · Materials · Manpower · Measurement · Mother Nature.
WeaveConcept map (verb-labelled)
Nodes with verb-labelled edges (e.g. 'leads to', 'causes', 'depends on').
WeaveArchitecture Decision Record
Status · Context · Decision · Consequences — the canonical ADR template.
WeaveThesis outline
Five-chapter thesis structure with sub-sections.
Markmap (Markdown)Paper review notes
Structured peer-review skeleton.
Markmap (Markdown)Indo-European languages
Simplified Indo-European family tree.
Phylogeny (Newick)Academic research lab
Publication anchored on knowledge; instruments and compute as commodity supports.
Wardley MapsFlowScript — RCT (open in /lab)
Tiny CONSORT-style trial flow in FlowScript. For full editing — property panel, AI co-pilot, pan/zoom — open it in the dedicated /lab studio.
FlowScriptFishbone — slow study enrolment
Clinical-trial framing for under-target enrolment.
Fishbone (Ishikawa)Fishbone — falling test scores
Education-research framing for a school-level achievement drop.
Fishbone (Ishikawa)Venn — selection vs. measurement bias
Common epidemiology bias families with the overlap.
Venn / EulerPERT — Phase 2 trial
Multi-month clinical trial network with parallel site activation.
PERT / CPM networkSwimlane — paper submission
Lead author / Co-authors / Editor / Reviewers.
Swimlane processCausal DAG — smoking & lung cancer
Classic epidemiology DAG with age as confounder and tar as mediator.
Causal DAGCausal DAG — randomised trial
Why randomisation breaks the confounder path.
Causal DAGCausal DAG — education and income
Effect of education on income with confounders and mediator.
Causal DAGCausal DAG — diet & cardiovascular risk
Diet effect on CV outcomes with BMI as mediator.
Causal DAGCausal DAG — vaccine effectiveness
Test-negative design with healthcare seeking as confounder.
Causal DAGCausal DAG — three-step mediation chain
Sequential mediators between exposure and outcome.
Causal DAGCausal DAG — minimum wage policy
Policy effect on employment with confounders and an unobserved path.
Causal DAGCausal DAG — collider bias
Illustrating how conditioning on a collider opens a spurious path.
Causal DAGCausal DAG — medication & fall risk
Polypharmacy effect on falls in the elderly.
Causal DAGMarkmap — research plan
Mind map of a research project — questions, methods, deliverables.
Markmap (Markdown)Kanban — research lab
Lab project board with experiments and writeups.
Kanban boardSyntax tree — "The cat sat on the mat"
Classic constituency tree in Penn Treebank notation.
Syntax tree (linguistics)Syntax tree — coordination
Sentence with coordinated subjects.
Syntax tree (linguistics)Syntax tree — wh-question
Movement-style tree for "What did Mary read?"
Syntax tree (linguistics)Syntax tree — relative clause
NP modified by a relative clause.
Syntax tree (linguistics)Syntax tree — indented form
Same tree expressed in 2-space indented notation (no parentheses).
Syntax tree (linguistics)Syntax tree — PP-attachment ambiguity
"I saw the man with the telescope" — PP attached high.
Syntax tree (linguistics)Argument map — ban single-use plastics?
Classic policy debate with rebuttals.
Argument mapArgument map — rent control
Economics policy debate with empirical sub-arguments.
Argument mapArgument map — moral arguments for vegetarianism
Ethics-textbook style.
Argument mapArgument map — civil liability
Lawyer-style argument map for a torts dispute.
Argument mapArgument map — nuclear energy expansion
Pro/con map for nuclear power policy.
Argument mapChoropleth — vaccination coverage
Mock vaccination % across major countries — for epidemiology classes.
Choropleth (GIS)Economics — supply & demand equilibrium
Classic equilibrium with intersection at P* / Q*.
Economics diagramsEconomics — supply shift right
Supply curve shifts right (e.g. cost-saving tech).
Economics diagramsEconomics — IS-LM equilibrium
IS curve crosses LM curve in (Y, r) space.
Economics diagramsEconomics — Prisoner's Dilemma
Classic 2×2 payoff matrix.
Economics diagramsEconomics — Lorenz curve
Income distribution showing inequality from equality line.
Economics diagramsStratigraphy — archaeological trench
Layer-by-layer trench section.
Stratigraphy / Harris matrixStratigraphy — Harris matrix (pit & wall)
Relative-chronology DAG for a small archaeological site.
Stratigraphy / Harris matrixSankey — global CO2 emissions
Source sectors → atmosphere, simplified for teaching.
Sankey flowPRISMA — vaccine effectiveness review
Sample PRISMA 2020 flow for a vaccine effectiveness lit review.
PRISMA 2020 flowPRISMA — telehealth mental-health review
Lit-review flow for telehealth-delivered CBT.
PRISMA 2020 flowPRISMA — environmental review
Environmental science systematic review template.
PRISMA 2020 flowPRISMA — educational technology review
EdTech effectiveness review.
PRISMA 2020 flowPRISMA — blank template
Starter PRISMA template with placeholder numbers.
PRISMA 2020 flowSystem dynamics — SIR epidemic
Classic SIR compartmental model.
System dynamics (stock & flow)System dynamics — bathtub stocks + flows
Pedagogical stock + inflow + outflow example.
System dynamics (stock & flow)System dynamics — fluid tank with valve
Engineering control example.
System dynamics (stock & flow)System dynamics — predator-prey
Lotka-Volterra-style stocks with mutual feedback.
System dynamics (stock & flow)Funnel — clinical trial enrolment
Phases of clinical trial recruitment.
Sales / conversion funnelDesign Thinking
The five design-thinking stages — empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test — as activity columns.
WeaveUser Persona
Persona card: photo + name, demographics, goals, frustrations, motivations, channels, and a quote.
WeaveQuadrant — Research Idea Selection
Novelty × feasibility to pick the next study or project.
Quadrant MatrixQuadrant — Paper Effort vs Impact
Writing effort × expected scientific impact for portfolio planning.
Quadrant MatrixQuadrant — Evidence Appraisal
Study quality × relevance for literature screening and synthesis.
Quadrant MatrixQuadrant — Grant Prioritisation
Funding likelihood × strategic fit for which grants to chase.
Quadrant MatrixQuadrant — Methodology Choice
Rigour × feasibility trade-off when choosing a study design.
Quadrant MatrixOrg — Research Lab Group
PI-led academic lab: co-investigators, postdocs, PhD students, and support staff.
Org chartOrg — University Faculty
Dean, heads of school, and the teaching/research split beneath each — plus the professional-services spine faculties always forget to draw.
Org chartRASCI — Research Project
RASCI variant with an explicit Support role: PI, postdoc, PhD student, lab manager, stats core, and ethics board on a clinical study.
RACI matrixFault Tree — AV Pedestrian Detection
An automated vehicle failing to detect a crossing pedestrian across 1000 urban hours: camera, lidar and radar pipelines must all miss AND the fusion layer must fail to recover, ranking sensor modality against software by Fussell–Vesely.
Fault tree (FTA)Decision Tree — Atrial Fibrillation Anticoagulation (QALYs)
A clinical decision analysis in quality-adjusted life years: a direct oral anticoagulant, aspirin or no therapy for atrial fibrillation with a CHA₂DS₂-VASc score of 2, with stroke severity, intracranial and extracranial bleeds — the DOAC arm rolls back to 7.129 QALY, 0.115 QALY ahead of aspirin. Illustrative values for teaching, not clinical guidance.
Decision treeDecision Tree — Knee Replacement Now or Conservative Care (QALYs)
Severe knee osteoarthritis with a downstream decision: replacing the knee now rolls back to 6.64 QALY over ten years against 5.84 QALY for conservative care, which itself carries a year-3 choice where delayed replacement beats staying conservative after progression. Illustrative values for teaching, not clinical guidance.
Decision treeDecision Tree — Drug Development Stage Gates (Phase II to Approval)
A pharmaceutical stage-gate tree with costs paid as each phase starts: funding Phase II rolls back to $70.7M against $35.0M for out-licensing now, with a Phase III go decision on a positive readout — and a risk profile showing the 83% chance the programme loses money. Illustrative values.
Decision treeRisk Matrix — Clinical Trial Quality Risks (ICH E6 RBQM, 3×3)
An ICH E6(R3) risk-based quality management assessment for a fictional 2,400-participant phase III trial on a 3×3 matrix: controls cut exposure from 50 to 25 (−50%), take seven of eight critical-to-quality risks down a band, and leave only slow recruitment rated High — above appetite, with 20 extra sites as the treatment. Illustrative register.
Risk matrixDecision Matrix — Choosing an Evaluation Design
A research steering group weighs four designs for evaluating a falls-prevention programme on 12 wards — individually randomised, stepped-wedge, interrupted time series and matched cohort — with time to result and evaluation cost measured. The interrupted time series ranks first at 4.15 of 5, 0.48 ahead of the stepped-wedge trial, which overtakes only if control of confounding rises from 25% to 49.2% of the weight; the matched cohort is dominated. Illustrative values.
Decision matrix (weighted / Pugh)Roadmap — Five-Year Research Consortium by Work Package
A five-year consortium grant on peatland restoration laid out by work package on a year axis, with deliverables and the funder's review points as milestones: 16 items (4 done, 4 in progress, 7 planned, 1 at risk) and 4 milestones in six lanes, status date 20 Sep 2027. All 20 dependencies finish before their dependents start; the longest chain, seven steps, runs from the kick-off through site instrumentation, the v1 carbon model, the mid-term review and the policy briefs to the final synthesis and the programme end. Illustrative roadmap.
RoadmapThe Scientific Method
The classic question → hypothesis → experiment → conclusion loop.
MermaidHistory Timeline — World War II
Key WWII milestones on a timeline — adapt for any history topic.
MermaidEssay Plan (Mind Map)
Structure an argumentative essay before you write.
MermaidResearch Project Timeline (Gantt)
Literature, method, data collection and write-up phases.
MermaidSystematic Review Screening (PRISMA)
PRISMA flow for a systematic review.
PRISMA 2020 flowYes/No Question (Syntax Tree)
Constituency parse of an interrogative.
Syntax tree (linguistics)Expand Nuclear Power? (Argument Map)
Arguments and rebuttals on nuclear expansion.
Argument mapML in Radiology Review (PRISMA)
PRISMA flow for a deep-learning literature review.
PRISMA 2020 flowUniversal Basic Income? (Argument Map)
Arguments and rebuttals on UBI.
Argument mapLow-carb Diet Review (PRISMA)
PRISMA flow for a diet effectiveness review.
PRISMA 2020 flowMinimum Age for Social Media? (Argument Map)
Arguments for and against an age limit.
Argument mapConfounding (Causal DAG)
The classic coffee-smoking-heart-disease example.
Causal DAGAllow Self-Driving Cars? (Argument Map)
Arguments and rebuttals on autonomous vehicles.
Argument mapFlipped Classroom Review (PRISMA)
PRISMA flow for an education review.
PRISMA 2020 flowPaper Keywords (Word Cloud)
Keyword frequency across a literature set.
Word CloudCFD — Clinical Trial Site Activation
Fourteen months of site activation for a multicentre phase III oncology trial, where identification outruns activation by 31 sites and the feasibility band widens for ten consecutive months.
Flow metrics (CFD)Kanban — Clinical Trial Site Start-Up
Site start-up work for a multicentre trial from feasibility through contract and ethics to green light, with capacity limits on the regulatory column and sites blocked on pharmacy set-up.
Kanban boardTimeline — Britain's Grid Decarbonisation
Policy instruments, plant closures and generation records that took the British electricity system from coal-dominated to majority low-carbon, split into policy and system-event lanes.
Timeline (history)Causal DAG — Statin Adherence and Mortality
Confounding structure for an observational study of statin adherence and cardiovascular mortality, with healthy-adherer behaviour as the unmeasured common cause the analysis must address.
Causal DAGCausal DAG — Roadside NO2 and Childhood Asthma
Directed acyclic graph for a birth cohort study of roadside nitrogen dioxide and incident childhood asthma, distinguishing residential self-selection from the housing and smoking confounders.
Causal DAGArgument Map — City Centre Congestion Charge
Argument structure for introducing a weekday congestion charge in a large regional city, with the regressivity and boundary-displacement objections rebutted and counter-rebutted.
Argument mapExcalidraw — A/B Test Design Sketch With Sample Size
A sketched experiment plan for a checkout redesign: eligible visitors, a 50/50 randomisation, control and variant arms and the primary metric, with the pre-registered numbers underneath — a 3.2% baseline, a 0.4-point minimum detectable effect, α 0.05 and 80% power, which needs about 32,000 visitors per arm. Illustrative values.
ExcalidrawWord Cloud — Thematic Analysis Codes, Night-Shift Handover Interviews
Code frequencies from a reflexive thematic analysis of 24 semi-structured interviews with ward nurses about night-shift handover: 16 codes applied 435 times, with "interruptions" the most frequent. A word cloud is a first look at a codebook, not a finding — frequency is not salience, which is why the themes are developed from the coded extracts. Illustrative values.
Word CloudRandomisations per Day — Multicentre Trial Recruitment, 2025
Daily randomisations into a fictional multicentre trial as sites open through the year: 398 participants in 2025, 119 in the first half and 279 in the second, with no randomisation at weekends, on the eight English bank holidays or over the Christmas closure. The thickening of the grid from spring onward is site activation, not seasonality. Illustrative values.
Calendar Heatmap