#venndiagram — Public Fediverse posts
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Dear Fediverse, can you please help me find the overlap between these three groups?
A: people willing and eager to wear a respirator indoors
B: people interested in board games
C: people living in or close to berlinI can't be the only one, right? Boosts would be highly appreciated, maybe you know someone who knows someone...? Thank you!
#stillmasking
#maskup
#wearamask
#covidisnotover
#longcovid
#chronicillness
#berlin
#boardgames
#brettspiel
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Discussed Venn diagrams with a couple of friends this morning, especially in the context of illustrating the utility of including all 3 or 4 of a specific set of design principles when creating certain kinds of things, and learned about the difference between Venn diagrams and Euler diagrams.
In short:
* a Venn diagram shows ALL possible relationships between different sets
* an Euler diagram shows only some relationships between different sets, typically focused on conveying relevant or the more important relationships
If you want to dive into their history and why these differences matter, bookmark (or open new tab) this Scientific American article to rabbithole later:
* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/venn-diagrams-history-and-popularity-outside-of-math-explained/
In pop culture and media, nearly any diagram of overlapping circles with labeled regions is (errantly) referred to as a “Venn diagram”.
This is imprecise at best, outright incorrect in many cases, especially diagrams of four circles.
A classic example is the “Ikigai” diagram:
Many (examples below) call this a Venn diagram. It is not a Venn diagram. It is an Euler diagram.
The Ikigai diagram fails to express two specific relationships between different sets, the two that contain opposing side circles but neither of the other two. The missing Ikigai sets relationships in particular:
1. only “you are good at” AND “the world needs” (with neither of the other two)
2. only “you love” AND “you can be paid for” (again with neither of the other two)
If you Google web search for "examples of four circle venn diagrams", Gemini gets this wrong:
And so do the majority of articles that Google shows in top results (which I’m not helping by linking here, but hey it’s Google’s job to fix its search quality, not mine. I was able to use Internet Archive links for two of them at least.)
* https://web.archive.org/web/20260823204717/https://boardmix.com/knowledge/4-circle-venn-diagrams/
* https://miro.com/templates/4-circle-venn-diagram/ (Miro’s own top template there is wrong, though others have contributed proper 4 set Venn diagrams)
* https://web.archive.org/web/20260823205434/https://www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/venn-4-circles-diagram
* https://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/EW_venndiagram_4
This has interesting implications for expertise and trust.
Clearly by this one example search result, we cannot trust the expertise of "design tool" websites (boardmix, miro), nor stock photo websites.
Nor can we trust educationworld as a place to be educated.
Nor can we trust Google Search (or Google Gemini) to surface expertise above popular misconceptions.
Perhaps a good example of when to use Wikipedia search instead of Google (or other generic) web search.
Personally I generalize this example to “all proper nouns”, that is:
* Wikipedia search proper nouns instead Google or other general web searching.
You can make this more convenient by setting up “w” as a search shortcut for Wikipedia: https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox
For reference / more reading on Venn diagrams and Euler diagrams:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_diagram
#Venn #diagram #diagrams #VennDiagram #VennDiagrams #EulerDiagram #setTheory #relationships #Ikigai #fourCircles #fourCirclesVenn #fourCirclesVennDiagram #misconception #popMisconception #Google #GoogleSearch #GoogleWebSearch #webSearch #search #Gemini #GoogleGemini #GeminiWrong #expertise #trust #webTrust #Wikipedia
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026 -
@maxleibman Where’s the Venn diagram? #venn #vennDiagram
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From the "Pivot to woodworking" department
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I've created a Julia package for my Eunoia project (area-proportional venn and Euler diagrams)! It is built around my Rust library eunoia and uses Makie for plotting. Give it a try and tell me what you think!
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All toads are frogs. Not all frogs are toads.
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I've retired the old Shiny-based app for my R package eulerr (https://https://jolars.github.io/eulerr/) that used to live at https://eulerr.co, which now directs to the new site at https://eunoia.bz.
The new app makes use of the new, exciting features of Eunoia, like supporting a complement (universe), as well as squares and rectangles in addition to circles and ellipses.
Please check it out!
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Followed by 21 minute podcast:
FINDING YOUR CLIMATE ACTION SWEET SPOT
This episode moves past the diagnosis of the climate crisis to explore the 'Venn Diagram' of action—a tool for finding your specific place in the solutions to come. An analysis of science, policy, and the necessity of imagining a flourishing future.
Based on Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's book What If We Get It Right? (2025)
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Et voilà.
Möge es für euch genauso hilfreich sein, wie es das für mich war und ist.
#Autismus #Hochbegabung #ADHS #VennDiagram #SchnittmengenDiagramm
edit: Typos im Bild korrigiert
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"Silent majority"
#censorship #Venn #VennDiagram #ignorance #fascist #books #complain #TV
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Roubei de outra rede, porque é preciso um pouco de humor para não pirar na batatinha!
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It could be argued that these subjects could also have been options. 😉
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Het verschil tussen een kat en een inktjetprinter in een #venndiagram.....hoe verzin je het!
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I'm going to need people who have no fucking clue how Venn diagrams work to please refrain from making them. The first image is an atrocity shared by a friend on FB (and that friend is not responsible for the abomination, and is a good person so I'm not posting this back on FB).
The second image is a proper Venn Diagram (one of several possibilities, I think, but the most common one).
The shitshow, the omnishambles, the clusterfuck...
- How is Clockwork Orange a combination of 1984 and Brave new World?
- How is Logan's Run a combination of Fahrenheit 451 and Handmaid's tale?
- How in green blazes is Gattaca a combination of clockwork orange, Soylent Green, and Brave New World?
- Et Goddamn Cetera
NONE of the overlaps make any sense. Whoever made this just threw scary book and movie titles in spaces. They should not even be informed of the existence of the proper 4-category Venn. They have proven themselves deeply unworthy.
I am guyjantic and I approve this unhinged rant about an inconsequential matter.
#rant #venndiagram #DataIsUgly #BadGraph #ForShame #Petty #soapbox
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#ShitIFind #VennDiagram
All my favorite sci-fi is coming true and that is really fucking scary.
