Good software to draw and manipulate causal networks?
post by J Bostock (Jemist) · 2021-09-02T14:05:18.389Z · LW · GW · 1 commentThis is a question post.
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I'm collecting my findings in a bunch of ageing-related systems. These consist of a bunch of networks with arrows pointing to things. What's making it difficult is the lack of a software to do this in. (Would need to have a system of nodes, directed arrows and those flat-headed arrows, and be reasonably user-friendly) Anyone use something like this themselves?
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Maybe try yEd? https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
Two things I've come across. Haven't used either much, but figured I'd mention them:
- https://app.diagrams.net/
- https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid-live-editor/ (This one is more of a markdown-style syntax than a drawing tool, but I've linked to the live editor)
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comment by Charlie Steiner · 2021-09-02T17:53:47.885Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I don't know about drawing, but the inference problem is one of the things probabilistic programming languages (like Church or PyMC) are designed to solve - I wonder if anyone's tried to automate the generation of a diagram from a probabilistic model.