Good software to draw and manipulate causal networks?

post by J Bostock (Jemist) · 2021-09-02T14:05:18.389Z · LW · GW · 1 comment

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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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answer by Ruby · 2021-09-02T18:01:47.145Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Maybe try yEd? https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
 

answer by Vaughn Papenhausen (Ikaxas) · 2021-09-02T21:00:28.613Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Two things I've come across. Haven't used either much, but figured I'd mention them:

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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.