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InteractiVenn – Interactive Venn Diagrams

119 pointsby histories10 months ago

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nikolay10 months ago
Kamala Harris approves this service [0]!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=edDnGiJStvs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=edDnGiJStvs</a>
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leonim10 months ago
This is cool.<p>I&#x27;ll mention an alternative way to visualize Venn diagrams are UpSet Plots.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;UpSet_plot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;UpSet_plot</a> [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upset.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upset.app&#x2F;</a> -- points to multiple implementations.
wonger_10 months ago
Ah, I&#x27;ve made interactive Venn diagrams too! Such a niche topic. Here&#x27;s a fun example of a 5-venn (give it a few seconds):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;editor.p5js.org&#x2F;jwong&#x2F;sketches&#x2F;vC2x-M_QU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;editor.p5js.org&#x2F;jwong&#x2F;sketches&#x2F;vC2x-M_QU</a><p>I was investigating visual aids for math tutoring. Interactivity took a bit of work. Here&#x27;s some alternative Venn implementations: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wonger.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;behind-venn#prior-art" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wonger.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;behind-venn#prior-art</a>
Aardwolf10 months ago
The 5-set Venn diagram looks beautiful (and is apparently by Branko Grünbaum), but is a similar symmetric 4-set Venn diagram also possible? Can&#x27;t find any such example on the internet<p>EDIT: apparently not, from Wikipedia: &quot;David Wilson Henderson showed, in 1963, that the existence of an n-Venn diagram with n-fold rotational symmetry implied that n was a prime number.&quot;
philsnow10 months ago
I&#x27;ve had an inkling at various times to make a widget or app or something for players of Diplomacy [0] that uses this visualization to make it easier to see activity in all of your conversations at a glance &#x2F; select who to talk to. It always ends up being more of a &#x27;fun&#x27; idea than something that would actually be useful, though, because the 6-set Venn diagram is so much more difficult to visually parse than just a list of countries in a &quot;To&quot; line.<p>[0] when played with &quot;white press&quot;, which is where players can send messages to another player &#x2F; to multiple other players, and the source of the message is authenticated. This is in contrast to &quot;gray press&quot; where the source is &#x2F; can be anonymous instead of authenticated and &quot;black press&quot; where the source can be spoofed.
martypitt10 months ago
Relevant xkcd: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;2962&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;2962&#x2F;</a>
leipert10 months ago
In case you need a quick Euler diagram (Venn and Euler are often mixed up), I recently found: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eulerr.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eulerr.co&#x2F;</a>
connorlanewhite10 months ago
This would almost certainly be more difficult, but I&#x27;d love if the diagram&#x27;s relative sizes (optionally) accounted for the size of the sets&#x27; data – e.g. if set A and B have 2 items each with zero overlap, it would show two circles of equal size, completely apart from one another
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low_tech_punk10 months ago
Wow, that 6-set visualization feels more asymmetric than 2,3,4,5. Is there an upper bound to the number of sets you can visualize in 2D, and how about 3D?
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jwilber10 months ago
Interesting that this was published in a bioinformatics journal.
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