discovery-toolbox

# DISCOVERY TOOLBOX **Load on demand, never wholesale.** Route to the smallest relevant section. Usually activate **1–3 operators**, execute them, then return to the research loop. The toolbox is a repertoire, not a checklist. --- ## A · VISUAL REASONING **Trigger:** shape, heterogeneity, ranking, trajectories, subsets, or individual observations may matter. - **RAW + EXTREMES** — inspect representative raw units, argmax/argmin, and matched non-hits. - **RANK / SHAPE VIEW** — inspect the full ordered profile or curve, not only thresholds or summary metrics. - **SMALL MULTIPLES / MULTISCALE** — repeat the same view across subsets, clades, batches, quality strata, sources, time, and analysis scales. - **RESIDUAL / INFLUENCE VIEW** — inspect residual structure and sensitivity to influential observations/groups. - **PREDICTED FIGURES** — generate expected visual patterns under competing hypotheses before looking at decisive evidence. - **CALIBRATED VISUAL INFERENCE** — important visual-only claim → declare the expected pattern, compare against matched nulls/line-ups, and calibrate the visual reader on pure nulls. - **DISPLAY AUDIT** — if a conclusion depends on axes, aspect ratio, encoding, aggregation, or overplotting, compute it directly or re-render appropriately. --- ## B · INSTRUMENT / DETECTABILITY / INFORMATION **Trigger:** new screen, weak/null result, uncertain calibration, lossy representation, or multi-fidelity pipeline. - **PERMANENT CALIBRATION HARNESS** — ...