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A Social System Map isn’t just a product—it’s a practice. It grows with your network, deepening insight and supporting action.

January 21, 2025 | 1 minute

Introduction to The sumApp Data Management Tab

The sumApp Data Management Tab enables you to: The Three Ways of Getting Your Data Into Kumu Understanding the Connection Import

January 21, 2025 | 2 minutes

Using the Graph Commons data output

sumApp now works with both Kumu AND Graph Commons! Graph Commons is an Open Source graph visualization platform that does most things differently from Kumu, and it does some things much better. So to give our sumApp users the best of both worlds,…

January 21, 2025 | 4 minutes

Turning Data-Flows Into a Practice

Moving data around is by far the most confusing, time-consuming, mind-numbing part of data-visualization. It’s the part of this whole mapping process with the most potential to drag you down a nasty rabbit-hole and cause you to beat your head…

January 21, 2025 | 6 minutes

Instructions for Using Tim’s Header Maker – Simplified Version

Instructions for Tim’s Header MakerSimplified VersionMar 25, 2024 Video Tutorial 25 minutes Existing Tech Required: Purpose: Create your copy of the Header Maker Make your own copy of the Header Maker in a Google Folder The first time you use…

January 21, 2025 | 9 minutes

Instructions for Using Tim’s Header Maker Part 2

Instructions for Tim’s Header MakerPublic Full VersionJul 25, 2024 Video Tutorial 25 minutes Existing Tech Required: Part II – Preparing Pre-Existing Data Before you begin Pre-existing data is defined in sumApp as a dataset to upload into sumApp that has the…

January 21, 2025 | 4 minutes

Bulk Upload with Pre-existing Data

What Is ‘Pre-Existing’ Data? Pre-existing data is information about your members that you’ve already gathered from other sources. For instance, you may have street addresses, organization names, titles or other info from event registration forms. Or you may have information…

January 21, 2025 | 1 minute

How to Change the Date Format in Excel to a Different Locale Other than English (USA)

Link for Walk-through Method 1: How to change the Date Format in Excel Link for Walk-through Method 2: How to change the Date Format in Excel

January 21, 2025 | 2 minutes

The Status Report

The ‘Status Report’ in sumApp helps you access a CSV file with all of your map members’ overall information. Why would you find the Status Report helpful? What the Status Report includes How to find the status report (It is…

January 21, 2025 | 7 minutes

Importing Connections from Another Project | Tier IV

Many of our customers work with different networks that have overlapping members. It is usually the case that each network will be managed in a separate sumApp project, be shown in it’s own Kumu map and have different kinds of…