More and more clinicians measure repeatedly over time, with ESM, diaries, IROC or questionnaires. This produces graphs, and with them the question of how to read them.

The Graph Reading Lab would like to help with that question, by looking at your data together with you.

We offer consultation on the basis of your own data, for clinicians and researchers, and also for clients whom we have trained to read along in one another's patterns. In this way, nobody has to interpret a time series alone.

What do we do?

A Graph Reading Lab session works as follows. You bring your data, for example an ESM dataset, a series of questionnaires or a time series of symptom measurements. We look at it together, not from a single method, but with the questions that complexity science offers: which patterns are visible, which nodes appear central, are there early warning signals, and what does this person seem to need?

The aim is not so much a report as learning to see for yourself what your data contain. We hope that after a few sessions you will feel more at home reading patterns, and that you can continue to develop this without us.

For whom?

  • Clinicians who work with ESM, questionnaires or diary data and would like to learn what their graphs are telling them
  • Researchers who have collected idiographic data and are looking for interpretive guidance
  • Clients who have been trained by us or by a clinician to look at their own data and their own patterns

Practical matters

The Graph Reading Lab works in small groups, online, on request. We work pluralistically: we have no preference for any single method and draw on what the literature offers, such as dynamic time-series analysis, networks, entropy measures, early warning signals and Schiepek's Synergetic Navigation System.

For members of the platform, participation is offered at cost. Others are welcome to get in touch, and we will look together at what fits.

Sessions are currently held in Dutch. We are open to English-language sessions on request.

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