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Tool To Generate Venn Diagrams for 8 data sets?

Kindly suggest any tool/software for construction of the Venn Diagram for 8 or more than 8 sample.

Thanking You.

Kind regards,

microarray data analysis;
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updated by h.mon h.mon • written by rkpathakbt • rkpathakbt

I know they are popular but Venn diagrams with more than 3 sets are very hard to read!! Why not just a matrix (table) with the numbers for all sets intersections, diagonals having the size of the sets? Or if you want to some graph rather than a table, why not a multidimensionality reduction strategy?

A colleague suggested upsetR They seem like a very good alternative to Venn diagrams!

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written by abascalfederico abascalfederico

I would suggest you think about which message you want to send with your data, and whether an 8-way Venn diagram is the right way to do that. I don't think there is any justified case, but I don't know your data.

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written by WouterDeCoster WouterDeCoster

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As plenty of comments pointed out, Venn diagrams for lots of sets are a bad idea. Check for alternatives here and here. Several people seem to like UpSet, I never used it so can't give an informed recommendation.

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written by h.mon h.mon

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