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Notional Model of Sensemaking

Last updated April 28, 2022

Authored by:: Brendan Langen and Joel Chan

As seen in The sensemaking process and leverage points for analyst technology, the Notional Model of Sensemaking in intelligence analysis has a looping structure that loops both between and within foraging and sensemaking loops, and progressively increases in both structure and effort, starting from raw data sources and culminating in a synthesized set of hypotheses.