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One approach is to represent your data as a graph, and use a network diagram tool to draw it. Variant 1: nodes are websites, weighted edges represent number of common links. Variant 2: a bipartite graph with nodes being either web sites or links, and unweighted edges indicating "web site A contains link B." The magic google phrase to find examples related to your example is "citation visualization".

The problem with this technique is that big graphs sometimes turn into hairballs in a graph layout tool, so you may need to prune or filter your data set for it to be intelligible.

There are other techniques: you could draw a grid where rows correspond to web pages, and columns to links they contain, and fill in cells (X,Y) where link X appears in web site Y. If you reorder the rows and columns to put related pages near each other and related links near each other this can be an effective analytic tool, but it might not be right for non-technical readers.

A lot of this depends on the details of your data. If you have any kind of metadata (a categorization of web pages or links) that will be a big help (and you might inlude itcould suggest other approaches--feel free to add details in your question.) About the only thing you can say for sure is a big Venn diagram is going to be a mess!

One approach is to represent your data as a graph, and use a network diagram tool to draw it. Variant 1: nodes are websites, weighted edges represent number of common links. Variant 2: a bipartite graph with nodes being either web sites or links, and unweighted edges indicating "web site A contains link B." The magic google phrase to find examples related to your example is "citation visualization".

The problem with this technique is that big graphs sometimes turn into hairballs in a graph layout tool, so you may need to prune or filter your data set for it to be intelligible.

There are other techniques: you could draw a grid where rows correspond to web pages, and columns to links they contain, and fill in cells (X,Y) where link X appears in web site Y. If you reorder the rows and columns to put related pages near each other and related links near each other this can be an effective analytic tool, but it might not be right for non-technical readers.

A lot of this depends on the details of your data. If you have any kind of metadata (a categorization of web pages or links) that will be a big help (and you might inlude it in your question.) About the only thing you can say for sure is a big Venn diagram is going to be a mess!

One approach is to represent your data as a graph, and use a network diagram tool to draw it. Variant 1: nodes are websites, weighted edges represent number of common links. Variant 2: a bipartite graph with nodes being either web sites or links, and unweighted edges indicating "web site A contains link B." The magic google phrase to find examples related to your example is "citation visualization".

The problem with this technique is that big graphs sometimes turn into hairballs in a graph layout tool, so you may need to prune or filter your data set for it to be intelligible.

There are other techniques: you could draw a grid where rows correspond to web pages, and columns to links they contain, and fill in cells (X,Y) where link X appears in web site Y. If you reorder the rows and columns to put related pages near each other and related links near each other this can be an effective analytic tool, but it might not be right for non-technical readers.

A lot of this depends on the details of your data. If you have any kind of metadata (a categorization of web pages or links) that could suggest other approaches--feel free to add details in your question. About the only thing you can say for sure is a big Venn diagram is going to be a mess!

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Martin M. W.
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One approach is to represent your data as a graph, and use a network diagram tool to draw it. Variant 1: nodes are websites, weighted edges represent number of common links. Variant 2: a bipartite graph with nodes being either web sites or links, and unweighted edges indicating "web site A contains link B." The magic google phrase to find examples related to your example is "citation visualization".

The problem with this technique is that big graphs sometimes turn into hairballs in a graph layout tool, so you may need to prune or filter your data set for it to be intelligible.

There are other techniques: you could draw a grid where rows correspond to web pages, and columns to links they contain, and fill in cells (X,Y) where link X appears in web site Y. If you reorder the rows and columns to put related pages near each other and related links near each other this can be an effective analytic tool, but it might not be right for non-technical readers.

A lot of this depends on the details of your data. If you have any kind of metadata (a categorization of web pages or links) that will be a big help (and you might inlude it in your question.) About the only thing you can say for sure is a big Venn diagram is going to be a mess!