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Good software to draw and manipulate causal networks?

by J Bostock
2nd Sep 2021
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Good software to draw and manipulate causal networks?
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Ruby

Sep 02, 2021

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

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Vaughn Papenhausen

Sep 02, 2021

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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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[-]Charlie Steiner4y20

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.

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