What is a Venn Diagram

A tool that can help you achieve your goals

Regia Marinho
4 min readFeb 27, 2023

An example. Here a Venn Diagram is used to brainstorm ideas for your next project.

Image: Mindomo.

A Venn diagram uses overlapping circles or other shapes to illustrate the similarities, differences, and relationships between concepts, ideas, categories, or groups.

They are useful for graphically organizing things, and highlighting how the items are similar and different.

This is a stained-glass window with a Venn diagram in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Stained-glass window with Venn diagram in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Photo: Wikipedia.

Venn Diagrams are a fascinating tool that helps people understand the relationships between different sets of data.

They are named after John Venn, a British logician who introduced this visual representation in the late 19th century.

The Venn Diagram is essentially a graphical representation of the overlap between two or more sets.

The sets are usually represented as circles, and the overlapping region between the circles represents the elements that are common to both sets.

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